Petrol posted:RGA are cops, and most of this thread is terrible. Can't say I disagree!
Agreed. So then who are the RGA boosters and PPW fantasists on this forum. Why are you pretending these things weren't mentioned?
blinkandwheeze posted:Petrol posted:RGA are cops, and most of this thread is terrible. Can't say I disagree!
Agreed. So then who are the RGA boosters and PPW fantasists on this forum. Why are you pretending these things weren't mentioned?
Obviously crow doesn't think much of maoists, but you have to cut him some slack, he is still upset about the sino-soviet split.
tears posted:if i was a cop and i wanted to disrupt the pizzle, id just join them, agree with everything they say and rise to a senior leadership position
one of the first interactions i had with leadership was an offer to career-track me and someone else into senior leadership in a matter of years. at certain points like this, like a mother who looks at her baby and momentarily indulges the fantasy of strangling it, i would wonder what would happen and what i'd do if i was an infiltrator. i think, even on a completely mental level, it really eroded whatever culture of security and secrecy they're so desperate to maintain.
anyway yes that's exactly how that works. it's so fucking dumb.
red_dread posted:Now, certain special individuals will notice something, even if they don’t fully know it; which is that hegemony within the movement itself hasn’t been consolidated by a dominant communist tendency or organization and, relative to the movement’s size and net inexperience, a single person could potentially dominate that hegemonic force itself and develop the party, and the course of political conquest, in the “right” direction during a sweetspot in its growth. Those special individuals are called narcissists or careerists, or both. Unfortunately, at the moment, they’re generally local leadership or prominent organizers rather than isolated rank-and-file party members.
They’re the cadres who, in the last instance, decide to make somewhat manipulative, and sometimes ethically challenging, decisions in the process of recruitment and internal politicking, as well as consistently draft and send reports to national-level leadership on basically everything that’s going on. These reports are taken as gospel without a contradicting account or complaint, but sometimes with them too. Sometimes a liaison from “National” swings by the local branch chair’s apartment for a few days and just goes home after that; if you’re lucky, they bring some books and make you pay for them.
anyone with two brain cells can dominate these "parties" in the same way you can dominate an actual party, by exuding authority and discarding anxiety, and having a drive to gather control (something cops well know how to do, its in the training), because all the "leaders" in these parties have is control (of finances, of knowledge (this is especially sickening to me), of adjendas, of "line"), not authority, hell, they dont even know what authority actually is, to them its like oil slipping through their fingers no matter how hard they try and grasp it.
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Maybe that's just in the initial stages before they get a real hold in the party. Certainly Heavy Radicals said it was generally infiltrators pushing division, including an entire organisation the FBI invented just to cause strife.
swampman posted:Lets all just go to Austin and waste these mother fuckers. It would be a good forums team building exercise and probably resolve a lot of the interpersonal issues that have come up in this thread. Everyone, this would be a good time to dip into your in-case-of-paramilitary-violence safety deposit boxes for the price of a plane ticket.
coincidentally i'll be in austin in mid-march anyway, im def. up for a rhizzone action. plz send your rsvp to "codename aerdil" via 450 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco
pescalune posted:Richard Seymour said that when he was in the SWP you could generally spot the cop because they would turn up regularly and were extremely eager to do the boring shit like email lists, leaflet distribution etc. Perhaps that says more about the general work ethic of that party though
I've been accused of being a cop for the crime of being helpful with boring stuff. While at the very same time people in that org kept trying to tell me confidential stuff that they really shouldn't have.
"Cops will happily do tedious tasks" is one of those things that while true, makes for a very poor sole criterion of suspicion if you want your org to be even barely competent. It just becomes a tool for useless dipshits to leverage the party into indulging their idiot personal insecurities.
Fill up the ranks with depressed slackers and hero complex lunatics, purge all the quietly helpful people with actual skills, good strategy. Social dysfunction is a far greater security risk.
shriekingviolet posted:You can take the clown out of the circus, but you can't take the circus out of the clown.
This looks exactly like the PSL/WWP "confrontation" from February in Texas. Unfortunately no video of them burning the stuff they took though.
shriekingviolet posted:Fill up the ranks with depressed slackers and hero complex lunatics, purge all the quietly helpful people with actual skills, good strategy. Social dysfunction is a far greater security risk.
weird sexist "tells." heard that from someone who had been around for awhile. example being two comrades arguing and as the argument terminates the male comrade goes "ok sweetie." aside from being sexist, if he had made it this far and read everything he's read and still says things like that, something is weird. but he is like that because he's a cop and that's how cops talk at the cop shop.
cars posted:kansas city isn't a real place nice try.