> Using the word "scene" is just another way of saying
> "activist community."
My point exactly. "Activist community" is, if anything, an even more telling choice of words than "scene." When people talk this way it is a sign that their idea of "activism" is reshuffling the organized rather than organizing the unorganized. A group of friends doing the thing they're "into," in rather the same way that some people are into raves or Civil War re-enactments. That's very different from people who make it their goal to actively organize ordinary people into sustainable organizations with a view to actually shifting power in this country and the world.
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