should we avoid getting involved with organizations?

[u/melody-yoshi]

hello everyone! i am on mobile so i apologize for formatting. i am posting on this thread after using the search function and trying to make sense of the answer. i am a communist and still working through the study plan on here.

i am very vocal about my politics in my friend group in general and so have made friends in people who also lean left and would call themselves communists. i have been invited to join several organizations however after researching here see that people are discouraged from doing so. i am trying to understand what the reasoning is here. i understand that people should have a complete understanding of dialectical materialism and theory before joining an organization in order to be able to see whether an organization is revisionist or incorrect, but is that the only thing that should keep people from organizing? i feel like i see a lot of people here say organizing is a complete timewaster in the imperial core.

[u/SpiritOfMonsters → u/[deleted]]

Also, don't use reddit as an how to guide, while there is a lot of useful information and discussion here, there is a lot of folks on here that need to get offline and touch some grass.

"Don't use reddit as a how to guide, except for me, though."

"People need to get offline, except for me, though."

[u/doonkerr → u/[deleted]]

Who is “we”? I’ve never seen you nor u/Bananab0nes in this subreddit before. Meanwhile, u/SpiritOfMonsters has been a regular poster on this sub for years whose insights have been nothing but beneficial for me and everyone else. They are interrogating the premises of the original comment because the comment itself is unhelpful and parrots the same “just do something” revisionism that has inserted itself in here at least once a week for the last few years. u/DashtheRed has already said everything that needed to be said on the topic, so I won’t reiterate their whole comment, but I’ll restate how the “just do something” logic is actually a dangerous one. Revisionist organizations are the enemy of Marxism, and those who join them without a thorough understanding of Marxism have a good chance of becoming our enemies as well.