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.

  • ElGosso [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The premise is wrong - the left is good at organizing, the issue is that the right doesn't have to fight the federal government.

    • DengXixian [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      :this:

      The united states government has to spend billions of dollars to fund agencies and departments almost entirely focused on combating leftism in the imperial core.

      • geikei [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        had to at some point in time and probably started paying a little more attention now again but no way they spend a fraction of that for pretty much 40 years +

        • silent_water [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          the records from a few decades ago are public now - they absolutely have as far as we know and there's no indication they let up in the more recent decades where we don't have data yet.

          • geikei [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Which are the records that say tha the US has spend billions in let's say the 90s and 00s specifically for domestic radical left organizing supression

        • silent_water [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          they weren't wrong that the Black Panthers represented an existential threat to the state.

        • redladadriver [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Well, they had to in the beginning at least. Generations of USians are now indoctrinated so the momentum is on their side. But truly, the CIA and the right wing fund media outlets, artists, TV, political groups... It's honestly stunning how left idealogy has even survived in the diminished form that it is now...

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah - a good approach would be to focus on the times the Democrats and Republicans closed ranks to deny the left a victory. Like the way the Democrats killed the Populist Party in the 1890s, or the way the Democrats gave up and endorsed the Republican so as to not let Hunter S. Thompson become sheriff of Aspen. :hst-pissed:

      • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        They did this against socialists in municipal Pennsylvania politics in early 20th century. Prob other places too: https://journals.psu.edu/phj/article/view/23744/23513

        When the Dems and repubs allied against the successful socialist government, they called them "fusionists"

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      the left also doesn't get millions of dollars in funding thrown their way. leftist operations are funded by mostly poor or middle-income workers directly.