A few things that are accessible within the USA include:
- Participating in mutual aid programs
- Campaigning on the local level, including for positions like poll watchers
- Making your voice heard in community events in general
- Joining your local DSA, networking
I call myself a leftist, thanks. But it’s messy and complicated, because there’s a lot of pragmatism mixed in there from the time I’ve spent in groups that have an anarchistic bent, since I’ve noted that they have a very, very hard time agreeing on action; great for debate, bad for decisions.
Cursed with the burden of eternal introspection, versus the fascist who can be content to act without thought.
This is the entire issue on the left and why they can never actually organize and run real candidates. While the left is busy arguing about the best way to organize the workplace the right just says “this guys (cold, lifeless) heart is in basically the right place” and pulls the lever.
Wish you were wrong, but you aren’t. Leftists, in general, allow ‘perfect’ to be the mortal enemy of “better than what we have now”, “good enough for this election cycle”, and even “stop the worst monster to run for public office in the last century”.
…Which is exactly why we have so many leftists refusing to vote for Biden; yeah, he’s not great, and he’s not even good on a most things, but refusing to vote for him makes it much, much more likely that a person that’s exponentially worse ends up getting elected. I don’t want to wake up the day after the election and face my trans friends and say, “Yeah, I’m sorry that you’re probably going to be murdered, but I had to send a message about funding genocide, and now the genocide is going to increase in pace, but you’re going to be killed in solidarity with Palestinians, so I guess that’s okay.”