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.

  • 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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          edit-2
          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...