I have a leftist friend who's a historian writing a paper on how the right is so successful at organizing and why the left sucks at it. Trying to help them gather sources. The more scholary the better.
She's particularly looking at right wing paramilitary organizations (proud boys, 3%s ect) And why the left has trouble forming their own.
Edit: question might have been a bit ambiguous, we all know a lot of the basic reasons for this, what I need is the type of thing that can be used for an academic research paper. Interesting discussion is still good though so have at it.
Souce: just trust me bro
Rightists are easier to organize because all you need to say is "I hate brown people and love my countey" and all the members will dismiss everything else they disagree with in order to work for a common goal
Leftists will say I dont particularly agree 100% with Zippidydoopy Slebernsitch, of 1932 in his book "The overall concentration of the philosophical and economic and poo poo pee pee of capitalhistorocalmarxicalanarchicalliberalism" which is 700 pages long with print size 9, and then the part splits into 79 different parties each with only 2 members
Speaking from a British perspective I see this among americans much more than our left. Over here we're nowhere near as childish about it because we're not under any illusions that we're remotely close to achieving anything worth fighting each other over. It seems like the American left, being even further away from any victories, fights itself more because victories against people in the left provides more immediate catharsis than the prospect of achieving anything.
Eh, I'm pretty sure "Exiting the Vampire Castle" was written about the British left, though it describes the American left perfectly.
Wasn't that more about identity and morals than sectarian thought?
We fight over that shit a lot, we do not much fight over red vs black, or red vs red. The american left sure does that a lot.
Yeah, fair. Although I feel like they're both cases of "easier to win a victory over your fellow leftists than over the fash" in action.
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If you think non electoral revolutionary leftist organizing has been dead for half a century now in the imperial core primarily because of extremely meandering ideological sectarianism i have a bridge to sell you. Also even so the successful ones both in the west and everywhere werent "big tent" and had robust and concrete ideological stances and beliefs
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There may actually be something to this. Maybe OP’s friend would benefit from some literature on the authoritarian personality