I was told that it may lead to easier or faster release, and I imagine I might be targeted to be imprisoned if I push it if I don’t bring an ID, but I feel like that’s bullshit but I don’t think I should leave it to chance
Would you bring an ID to a protest?
(Did I accidentally start a struggle session?)
Yeah, based on your tone I kinda suspected that’s what you were proposing.
If you wanted, instead of protesting, to have a strike at a strategic workplace, or do sabotage, or block a port, or have a general strike, or even an insurrection, then those are at least somewhat actionable. You can find historical examples, even current examples, and study what they’ve gotten right or wrong, and how their context is similar or different from yours. You can start thinking through how you can get from your current circumstances, to that goal, and then what could be next. Start thinking about the material conditions you’re in and what possibilities actually exist and how you can potentially, in some way, intervene in the course of the class struggle.
And if you decide your next step is “find two dedicated local comrades” or whatever, that’s a completely valid starting point. Reading could be a starting point. Getting your personal life together could be a starting point, I don’t know your life. Unproductive criticism is unfortunately not a starting point, unless you find a way to make it productive.
And maybe you’ll decide conventional protest has some role in this process, and maybe you wont. I gave my opinion above, but I don’t really know, and that specific tactic isn’t really the important point. The important part is thinking through questions of strategy materialistically and scientifically, instead of emotionally and impressionistally.
You’re not wrong about thinking we’re in a bad situation and not accomplishing what we need to. But put yourself in your historical context. Communists have chosen one of the most difficult causes in human history. We’ve been at this for hundreds of years, we’ve faced unimaginable defeats and losses, but we’ve also learned some hard lessons and made at least a few important advances. And right now, that process is still in motion, and we all have to figure out what to do and how to do it. Picking one specific thing not to do is completely insufficient.