Seattle Communists 2017 Summation

Sophia Burns
5 min readJan 8, 2018

(Note: This is purely an individual reflection, not any kind of official or collective statement.)

The Left needs a better culture of self-reflection, as opposed to boosteristic self-praise (or hyperbolic “self-criticism” focused on individual moral failings rather than collective decisions, good and bad). So, in that spirit, here are 4 failures and 3 successes from Seattle Communists’s first full year as an independent CLP chapter.

SC has focused on:

  1. re-establishing Q-Patrol as our first mass work project;

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Sophia Burns

Paganism, Buddhism, Classics, philosophy, LGBTQ culture, and the art of living well. Former activist; I don’t trust culture war. http://patreon.com/sophiaburns