A note to Millennial leftists in America

Political consciousness tends to kind of “skip” generations sometimes, for a variety of reasons. For those of you out there who are young, and just coming into revolutionary/leftist politics, you probably feel like all of the political infrastructure constructed by the partisans and movements that came before you have been broken down or defeated or are otherwise lost to you. 

They aren’t- but they’re being carried on by people who are now in their sixties. Like, I’m twenty-five, and the movement spaces I frequent are dominated by people around my age, and people a generation above my parents’. Gen X just got skipped. 

This is important, because it means that a lot of the organizations you’re looking for, the ones that are run by the older segment of the American left, likely do not have a developed web presence. Often, what they do have is an old listserv or a Yahoo group. This can make them hard to find, but it doesn’t mean they’re not out there anymore, and if you get familiar enough with your area’s political landscape, you will eventually find them.