Get the F*** Out of Your House: Yotam Marom on How to Raise the Volume on the Politics of Powerlessness

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Yotam Marom discusses the importance of joining organizations to combat political powerlessness and drive social change.

“Get the f*** out of your house and join an organisation. Groups are how we make movements. They’re how we make political and social change. They’re how we transform. Nobody does anything of value alone.” — Yotam Marom If you’re feeling politically powerless, you’re not alone. Yotam Marom — full-time organiser, facilitator and veteran of Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter — has spent his adult life on the front lines of progressive movements. His new book, For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond the Politics of Powerlessness , explains why progressive movements keep losing — and what to do about it. Marom’s diagnosis is that the left has developed a “politics of powerlessness” — an attachment to purity, insularity, and performing resistance rather than building power. In contrast, the right understands that people’s pain is real, and channelling it into something organised is the only route to political change. The liberal model of showing up every few years, voting, and then going home is insufficient. And the left too often sabotages itself by dodging conflict and choosing righteousness over action. His prescription is to “get the f*** out of your house” and join an…

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Keen

Guest: Yotam Marom

Topics covered

• political activism
• progressive movements
• powerlessness
• social change
• community organizing

Keywords

• politics
• activism
• social movements
• community
• progressive
• power
• change

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond the Politics of Powerlessness

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