International Socialists (Amsterdam): "How Come We're Socialists But We're Not Social?"
About this episode
Hella shares her experience with the International Socialists and the disillusionment she faced within the group.
In 2007, at 19-years-old, Hella had a boss who molested her at work, and no one to turn to. Then one day, walking through her university square in Amsterdam, she met a group of people full of conviction. Passionate about the injustices in the world. And passionate about doing something about it. They were a far-left political group. A Trotskyist splinter organization called the International Socialists (aka Internationale Socialisten). They knew who was to blame (the capitalists). And they knew what it would take to fix it... ...a goddamn revolution. 14 years later, after giving them her money, her twenties, and her autonomy… after the tragic death of a fellow female comrade… Hella woke up to something she couldn't unsee: The exact thing she'd been fighting against was running rampant inside the group that claimed to be against it. __________________________________________________________________ FIND HELLA You can find Hella on Facebook ( Hella Baan). She said if you'd like to send her an email, go for it! ISculty@proton.me HELLA 'S WRITINGS DURING HER TIME IN THE GROUP Hella 's article archive at socialisme.nu (in Dutch) — the articles she published as a comrade, a rare window…
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