What Is to Be Done vs How to Do It
Friday, September 22, 2023
We’ve forgotten how to build membership organizations. Yet the success of democratic society will depend on them.
A membership organization is built by:
Determining the constituency/class it will represent Finding (and convincing) influential people in the constituency to recruit members Asking new members to sacrifice time, talent, and money towards the organization I have seen a few attempts at organizing in Boise and they generally failed these steps. The main exceptions are the Leninists and Reclaim Idaho (I’ll discuss them more below).…more