Thread by @gindaanis

I'll be processing #socialism2022 for a while. The people I met and listened to and learned from, in and out of sessions. The way that the things they said combined in such interesting ways. God I've missed conferences, please keep inviting me to speak at them because I loved it

But it was the final moment that really crystalized something for me. They sang The Internationale which, bad socialist that I am I have heard of but don't know. It's a difficult melody, so it was discordant and out of sync. All those voices.

And it was perfect.

Because that's who was there. Socialists and anarchists, people who reject those labels or take them on and off depending on need or mood. Trotskyists and Marxists. Genders and races and labour and all manner of educated and self educated, academic and front line.

At times we are discordant. Different paths towards similar, but not always the same, goals. Goals that take us to the place where we change everything and collectively imagine a better world, a world that must be. Discordant as we are, we lifted voices and fists together

That was powerful for me *because* it was discordant and out of sync. Because of the differences. Difference is not division. And as we walked out we lifted our voices again.

We are unstoppable.
Another world is possible.

That part was in beautiful unison.