Paralysing your local DSA with endless struggle sessions because they refuse to recognise Amerikkka as an illigitimate political formation and start training for a Protracted People's war is the other extreme; another unprincipled vice that should also be avoided and criticised.
Paralysing your local DSA with endless struggle sessions because they refuse to recognise Amerikkka as an illigitimate political formation
In my mind this is the far more common (and thus far more dangerous) issue. Too many people forget that radicalization is a process, you have to give people a pipeline from wherever they are to the left, and presenting yourself as too radical too soon will turn people off.
One thing the right has dialed down to a science is how to get people from moderate political positions to blood-and-soil extremism. One of the #1 things they don't do is putting all the radical stuff front and center right off the bat. They give people breadcrumbs to follow.
Depends on your context I guess. My only experience with this kind of wrecking in the name of purity has come from liberals believe it or not who think we can't continue to function until we have fixed some internal problem with respect to demographics or whatever. The left part of the org fails to recognise this as opportunistic wrecking because they haven't fleshed out their politics and are operating off their own activist common sense and take the bait. In trying to unify with these people and keep them happy, a wedge was deiven through the org and it was paralysed. So I guess sometimes it's not either too much unity or too hardline but both really. As an ML I'd identify the problem as a lack of Marxist analysis and unity in the leadership.
Paralysing your local DSA with endless struggle sessions because they refuse to recognise Amerikkka as an illigitimate political formation and start training for a Protracted People's war is the other extreme; another unprincipled vice that should also be avoided and criticised.
In my mind this is the far more common (and thus far more dangerous) issue. Too many people forget that radicalization is a process, you have to give people a pipeline from wherever they are to the left, and presenting yourself as too radical too soon will turn people off.
One thing the right has dialed down to a science is how to get people from moderate political positions to blood-and-soil extremism. One of the #1 things they don't do is putting all the radical stuff front and center right off the bat. They give people breadcrumbs to follow.
Depends on your context I guess. My only experience with this kind of wrecking in the name of purity has come from liberals believe it or not who think we can't continue to function until we have fixed some internal problem with respect to demographics or whatever. The left part of the org fails to recognise this as opportunistic wrecking because they haven't fleshed out their politics and are operating off their own activist common sense and take the bait. In trying to unify with these people and keep them happy, a wedge was deiven through the org and it was paralysed. So I guess sometimes it's not either too much unity or too hardline but both really. As an ML I'd identify the problem as a lack of Marxist analysis and unity in the leadership.