The Horizon

I wish that the New Left Network would grow. I have created a beautiful website for people to interact in a socially propogating way, just like Facebook or Myspace. Yet it seems that no one wants to join and become active. I understand that it is an entirely new system to understand and figure out. But I guess I would have thought that people would come and learn and then try to at least become involved before falling out of the loop.

I hope that over time, this will change and people will come to the network and see how cool it is. But for now, I am stuck with just continually pushing it, on forums, on blogs, everywhere. If anyone knows of a place that would be interested in a social network targeting radicals and lefitsts, then please go and tell them about this!

I found a social networking site that is open-source and free to use. You might be thinking “all social networking sites I have seen have been free to use.” But I would argue that there is still a certain amount of corporate connection to the site you use as these sites are created, backed and served by financially-oriented corporations.

Anyways, this site, called The People Aggregator, is open for anyone to create a network that can connect many people.

I have created a network that is called the New Left Network which I hope will connect people around a New Left movement. Whether they be anarchists, anti-globalizationists, pareconists, or any of the other movements spreading in this new century, I hope that the New Left Network becomes a communication hub for ideas and for supporting and promoting activism.

So I invite anyone who reads this to come join in the discussion about what a New Left Movement would be in this century and how we can all work together to make it possible.