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  • socii [none/use name,any]
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    4 years ago

    This is a really good point. We desperately need to organize and get cities on our side before the escalation in violence - guerrilla war is impossible without popular support.

    I think that we can look to the tactics of the IRA for education on how to wage war; I believe that any guerrilla war waged by the left will have to be based in the cities, which will provide unique challenges. Reading Mao's and Guevara's works on warfare is useful, but ultimately we would have to cultivate our own strategy and methods - certain elements of those works are not applicable to America.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The IRA also worked because of a very strong cultural divide. The IRA was made up of Irish, Catholic, Socialists. The RUC and British Intelligence and all the Nazi goons they hired were Protestants, English, and imperialists. A large part of the reason the IRA was so hard to dismantle is that ratting on an IRA man meant you were selling out your cousin or your neighbor or your classmate from school to the English, and no matter what people thought about the IRA they all hated the English. That pre-existing combination of Religious, racial, class, and economic solidarity gave the IRA a strong advantage against the colonial occupiers and settlers.

        Unfortunately we don't have any equivalent in the US. Liberals would sell us out for free, there are plenty of minorities and people of color who would sell out for money or clout or advancement.