While mostly white “leftists” were inventing strategies based on missing analysis, there was an organization in the city doing all of this better: Community Movement Builders.

A critical appraisal of recent struggles in Atlanta

    • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      many of these community organizations pulled out because they didn’t want to be associated with adventurists.

      Not to defend adventurists or ultras, but this also seems like the wrong action for community orgs to take.

    • The_Dawn [fae/faer, des/pair]
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      2 years ago

      How, after approximately 100 years of this, has the "organized left" not managed to brace people for the fact that "opportunists" will get violent.

      Its a fucking joke. Alll the orgs in the USA are non-serious posturing lead by a few grifters trying to cash in at the end and not let the project get too radical as to be unmarketable.

      The true opportunists are the ones using the most predictable telegraphed action possible (everyone knew the anarchists were in Antlanta for months) to back out of attempting to do anything.

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I am very stridently against opportunism and adventurism, but if we keep jettisoning people when they are doing those actions we will never get anywhere. The cops protect their own, so should we.

    • RonJonGuaido [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      sorry, criticism of cosplaying losers is sectarianism. i insist you refrain from posting until the mods ban you.

    • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      At the 1999 WTO protests the socdems were protesting in agreement with the "white anarchists" knowing full well they will be in bloc and they will be there to break shit. This is not an excuse.