cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5733381

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    We don't have to know about it. There's nothing stopping any actor from dropping funds into a patreon or liberapay through a series of shell companies and multiple accounts.

    I would be surprised if several governments are not already doing this.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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      2 months ago

      Lets just say that the cost-benefit analysis for such actions aren't worth it for either parties and would act as a poison pill for recipients and as a form of blowback for the donor. Anything that makes domestic communist movements even give off the whiff of being foreign-backed poisons whatever credibility they wish to establish.

      I'm telling you this both out of historical precedent and from experience, seeking or accidentally receiving foreign funding of any sort is a bad idea for communists in the imperial core.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            2 months ago

            In all seriousness, banks seem like a bad idea. Armoured cars though? They still seem vulnerable if you consider just how much of the security around them is theatre.

              • Awoo [she/her]
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                2 months ago

                So are the guards at the bank or the cops that show up within 5 minutes of the silent alarm being pulled.

                I don't actually think it's that different today to what Stalin was doing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Tiflis_bank_robbery