Indeed. I wont get into a full contextual explanation of the leftist groups and the Left in my country, because i would need several hours and a different thread for that; but my party is fully into the politics, the stundents movement and the workers movement of my country, both locally and on the general context.
You dont do politics to "connect" with people, this isnt a social club. Of course, it is inevitable to end up having personal relationships with people when you are engaged in politics; specially in my case, the university context; but a person should get into politcs because it has a need, a desire, to change the way his/her reality works. We are here to make a better world for ourselves and our people, this is serious stuff, not some hobby or some posse you get into to brag about how "radical" you were in your college years.
I personally know people that get into political parties and/or organizations in spite of social integration, and those who get into it because they want to feel good about themselves (usually these have a petite-bourgoise profile and dont really have a need or a desire to change the system). I loathe both groups, they sicken me and they make the work of the people like me and my comrades in my party, who are serious about our political demands, worse and slower.
Im not here to make friends, im here to change the world. If friends come they will be welcomed, and if enemies ocme they will be fought.
Oh no, dear god, no. In fact, our party long-term strategy on the stundent's movement -which my natural front right now, since im a collge student- is to destroy today's ineffective and infantile, and in general not very serious tactics, and transform the movement into a serious threat for the right wing government we have right now. We et a lot of insults thrown arround because of this, but that just confirms our ideas about their infantilism and their lack of seriousness.
Yes, we do. In fact, I would say a good planning for local agitation is basic and fundamental to create and make the communist movement grow. Without a healthy base of organized workers and opressed clases, you cant do shit. Is very important that every cell tries to organize, integrate and get to know the local workers as much as it cans.