anon_fala said in #5513 21h ago:
Radical political organizing today seems to be best carried out through the form of a book club. Just as Bolshevik and Maoist cadres formed radical reading groups to build solidarity amongst partisan cells and nucleate and distribute ideological doctrine, we can do the same with our own ideology today. Book clubs do not attract a great deal of attention from either political authorities or media groups hostile to our projects. They are low-cost, and they hit both the need for intellectual formation and the human contact necessary to create solidarity amongst radical, aligned elements. I've had some success organizing radical book clubs in our scene in my own city.
With all that said, how can we use this form factor better? What did the pre-revolutionary Bolsheviks and Maoists do that we are failing to do?
I think in general, in-person organizing on the extremist right is, to say the least, problematic. We have some activist, active club organizations like Patriot Front that are involved in marches and rallies that undoubtedly have an effect on widening the Overton window and building solidarity, but they're attracting a lot of heat, and it's unclear how they're really helping to build a national network. It seems like there are inherent trade-offs between publicity and security, as well as between networking and containerization.
An ideal system of right-wing cells would involve something like a hierarchy of formally disconnected groups, with various organizations doing top-of-funnel, less explicitly radical work that serves as a feeder for more radical groups that are more covert and open only to pre-vetted, aligned individuals. As it stands today, we seem to have a decently good network of individuals who are our guys both in America and abroad. But the networking between these people is informal and maybe low-bandwidth, and the more "top of funnel" feeder system to propagate ideology and to recruit high-value individuals into our sphere is very lacking. Right now, it seems all there is is the public internet and our media space, which can introduce people to our ideas and then pull them into in-person organizing, but at the cost of low recruiting throughput and middling success in transmitting our worldview.
How can the discerning individuals of sofiechan.com build out this network and optimize our organizational process, whether in the book club organizing space or generally? What are we missing? Any discussion of pros and cons or successes and failures would be welcome.
With all that said, how can we use this form factor better? What did the pre-revolutionary Bolsheviks and Maoists do that we are failing to do?
I think in general, in-person organizing on the extremist right is, to say the least, problematic. We have some activist, active club organizations like Patriot Front that are involved in marches and rallies that undoubtedly have an effect on widening the Overton window and building solidarity, but they're attracting a lot of heat, and it's unclear how they're really helping to build a national network. It seems like there are inherent trade-offs between publicity and security, as well as between networking and containerization.
An ideal system of right-wing cells would involve something like a hierarchy of formally disconnected groups, with various organizations doing top-of-funnel, less explicitly radical work that serves as a feeder for more radical groups that are more covert and open only to pre-vetted, aligned individuals. As it stands today, we seem to have a decently good network of individuals who are our guys both in America and abroad. But the networking between these people is informal and maybe low-bandwidth, and the more "top of funnel" feeder system to propagate ideology and to recruit high-value individuals into our sphere is very lacking. Right now, it seems all there is is the public internet and our media space, which can introduce people to our ideas and then pull them into in-person organizing, but at the cost of low recruiting throughput and middling success in transmitting our worldview.
How can the discerning individuals of sofiechan.com build out this network and optimize our organizational process, whether in the book club organizing space or generally? What are we missing? Any discussion of pros and cons or successes and failures would be welcome.
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