Families and Revolutionaries
How do y'all, as revolutionaries, activists and anti-capitalists, deal with talking with the non-revolutionaries in your own families?
My peeps are progressive surburans who believe NAFTA was created to save the world. When it's explained that NAFTA is, in fact, destroying the Global South they get all panicky-looking and change the subject. Y'know? They're fragile.
Every time I have to go home or update my fam on what I'm doing it's a constant strain. I end up giving them this watered-down version of what's up. It's too much for them to hear "Working to take down capitalism and corporate 'America'"...lol. It's hard to talk to suburbanites about the movement. If you totally take your stand no one listens to you anymore and you're the crazy radical/hippy inciting familial rage in the living room. My tactic has been more subversive but damn it gets hard sometimes!
Maybe I don't trust my own debating skills (never can think of the perfect response til hours later) enough to openly admit my stance on issues.
Advice for this? Are you "out" with your family? ;)
My peeps are progressive surburans who believe NAFTA was created to save the world. When it's explained that NAFTA is, in fact, destroying the Global South they get all panicky-looking and change the subject. Y'know? They're fragile.
Every time I have to go home or update my fam on what I'm doing it's a constant strain. I end up giving them this watered-down version of what's up. It's too much for them to hear "Working to take down capitalism and corporate 'America'"...lol. It's hard to talk to suburbanites about the movement. If you totally take your stand no one listens to you anymore and you're the crazy radical/hippy inciting familial rage in the living room. My tactic has been more subversive but damn it gets hard sometimes!
Maybe I don't trust my own debating skills (never can think of the perfect response til hours later) enough to openly admit my stance on issues.
Advice for this? Are you "out" with your family? ;)