I know it’s a stretch, but if someone or their org wants to come, by all means do!
Every year my party organizes Manifiesta festival. It’s a leftist festival with music, debate, sports, film and food and it takes place in Oostende, Belgium.
Topics of debate and guests of this year include, but are not limited to: Chris Smalls (the Starbucks Union guy), debates on Niger and Burkina Faso, Cuban and Palestinian comrades, Jeremy Corbyn (yeah, I know lol) and many more. There will also be free leftist movies to watch, local food and drinks and countless of other activites. Oh, and I will be there as well lol.
Anyway, here is the website for those interested :)
Oh yeah, Amazon lol.
What I like is that we invite socdem guests who also draw other socdems only to have them catch glimpes of Cuban revolutionary talk etc. It’s bound to radicalize some of them.
One of my turning points was listening to a talk at a socdem rally and enjoying the talk that quoted Lenin. Until that point, I’d thought that Lenin was so obviously a mass-murdering psychopath that he wouldn’t be worth reading. Certainly not worth praising. What was this trickery, and why is this speaker cherry-picking bits where it sounds like he cares about ordinary people? I can’t believe people fall for that! He does sound right, though. Hang on, what’s happening to me??
I was also surprised to learn that he’d written anything at all and thought, ‘huh, maybe it was a speech or a book of speeches’. You can imagine my surprise as I realised this beautiful bald genius wrote a small library worth of books.
I should add that I was highly educated by that point. The propaganda machine is powerful. I don’t think my past self was a rarity.
You’re bound to get some people thinking differently.