Reply To: Status of World Socialist Party (US)

So, it sounds like as a Party we should continue to publish and print propaganda, not much else, with the aim of educating the working class, but not persuading them of anything.

And is this working? How do we measure our success? Member numbers? Voters?

I still don’t feel like anything the Party is doing is actually making any difference. Who speaks of the SPGB or WSM? This thread is about how in the US it’s almost non-existent. I don’t feel like the SPGB is any kind of force in the UK.

But we seem OK with that, because we don’t want to actively persuade people of socialism, they must come to that conclusion themselves. How? By reading our magazine and pamphlets, I assume. So can we measure their readership to know if more or less people are engaging with us?

I just don’t want to be a passive participant in the fight for socialism. Perhaps that means the SPGB isn’t the place for me then… I don’t know.

I do believe however that if we don’t actively try and increase membership/support, not a great deal of people will voluntarily join. And I fear that unless we try something new, our membership average will continue to increase and our currently good financial status will also deteriorate.