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.
In regards to right wing militias, they firstly have time and money because they're all petty bourgeois white people. How does the average worker have time to go on week long training retreats? How is the average worker to buy $1000+ guns and thousands of dollars of ammo and other equipment?
Secondly, leftist ideology has always understood self defense (or violence in general) in terms of numbers and organization, not skill and equipment. The average worker can be turned into a soldier by handing him a cheap rifle and some bullets and training him to shoot. Thus he doesn't need to be apart of some fraternal organization. Trotsky urges the workers to fight fascism with pistols and knives. There's that Malcolm X speech where he says the guerilla soldier has nothing but a rifle.
Finally there's the feds. They'll keep a right wing group around as long as they don't get too bloodthirsty but they won't let a left wing one exist because if the left wing group gains momentum and turns the populace towards a revolution it might be too late for the feds to step in. A right wing group will never turn the populace to a revolt because their ideas are fundamentally chauvinist.
Edit: Simply put, the organizations your friend is looking at it consist of "operators". We cannot afford "operators", we do not need "operators". and the FBI would never let us have "operators".
Ten people with one rifle beat one person with ten rifles every time
E: except Rambo I guess :shrug-outta-hecks:
You still need to organize, but you honestly don't need to be an operator. Join/create a community organization. Learn first aid/CPR Help others prepare for the times ahead with food/water/medicine, etc. And for pete's sake, if you are able and willing to bear the idea of owning a firearm, at least build/buy an AR lower and begin assembling one.
An Anderson stripped lower is like $30-$40. You can buy the pieces a little at a time if you don't have a huge amount of money. You don't even need to put the upper on, but the cool zone is inching closer and closer..