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.
If she’s looking for structural differences between the orgs, that document where the FBI stated they had trouble infiltrating decentralized organizations might be worth a read. My guess is it’s less about the structure of the group and more about external suppression, but there might be something to be said about the idea that right-wing groups are pathologically hierarchical. You can infiltrate a group of 7 guys and they’ll all have ranks