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.
Look up the jakarta method for an idea of the process/tactics abroad. Then skim over mkultra and then review cointel pro in more depth.
The left in the imperial core is at a severe disadvantage from the following:
Reason 1. outright active state oppression
Reason 2. decades of assassinations and sheepdogs
few elder leftists that haven’t been either murdered or co-opted into the system
3. Community devastation
the war on drugs, the AIDs epidemic, the mishandling of covid. All of these result in both loss of life and the ability to organize.
4. (almost) everyone in the imperial core benefits from imperialism
This creates a dynamic where dismantling the system would very likely worsen many’s immediate material conditions in the United States. As imperialism continues to “come home”, this force lessons in its influence on suppressing more coherent degrees of class consciousness.
5. Abysmal and broken education system + widespread propaganda through media manipulation
Americans are on the whole now some of the least educated and poorly trained populations of any imperial core country. This benefits the core so will only compound further.
6. Settler-colonialism + systemic racism
The class system in the United States is built upon the genocide of indigenous people, the enslavement of Africans, and the mass theft and privatization of all land in the United States.
This has created a dynamic where the white working class in the United States functions closer to a privileged labor aristocracy and is materially incentivized to lack proletarian consciousness.
On the whole, the white (and especially cishet) working class possesses a petit-bourgeois and reformist consciousness. The colonized peoples of the United States constitutes a more conventional proletariat. This can be seen in the success of black and indigenous liberation movements, and (to a lesser extent) queer liberation movements.
The Amerikan apartheid police state had to respond with overwhelming force to groups like the Black Panthers and even then, they barely managed to overcome them. This necessitated community devastation to heighten alienation and force individualism (see above)
The book Settlers in part outlines this, although it tends to upset white armchair leftists as it is not written in a “respectable” academic tone and it makes a clear case for why any coming revolutions will not be centered white men as the main heroes.
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