@jonnysocialism on twitter made a post about how the American Communist Party website was registered by someone who is a fed/ex-fed. I don't use twitter and I'm not having luck pulling it up via Google but that's one place to look.
Ultimately though we can take a Materialist's Razor approach to this:
PatSocs seek to distort Marxism and to funnel potential revolutionary energy and class consciousness into a praxeological dead end and into crypto-reactionary beliefs, diverting that energy and awareness away from revolutionary efforts that threaten capitalism and the state. They also serve to smear the image of communism amongst the masses by making communists look like a bunch of crackpots.
The only thing we don't have clear evidence of yet is them pissing large amounts of member energy and money up the wall on ineffectual projects that only cause burnout and egregious waste of resources.
Whether their efforts are an intentional, cynical plan to act as wreckers or whether they're just a bunch of larping dorks running a vanity project, essentially the outcomes are the same in a material sense regardless of whether or not it's a legitimate psyop and thus the question of whether it might be one is valid yet ultimately it doesn't change what they're doing and the impacts that it will have.
Don't get me wrong I'd be the first one to pop a bottle of champagne if a smoking gun was discovered for this but it's not that likely to happen, and even if it does then it might well be years and years before it is found, so I'm not holding my breath for it.
It's a bit of a walks like a duck/quacks like a duck situation as far as I'm concerned.
@jonnysocialism on twitter made a post about how the American Communist Party website was registered by someone who is a fed/ex-fed. I don't use twitter and I'm not having luck pulling it up via Google but that's one place to look.
Ultimately though we can take a Materialist's Razor approach to this:
PatSocs seek to distort Marxism and to funnel potential revolutionary energy and class consciousness into a praxeological dead end and into crypto-reactionary beliefs, diverting that energy and awareness away from revolutionary efforts that threaten capitalism and the state. They also serve to smear the image of communism amongst the masses by making communists look like a bunch of crackpots.
The only thing we don't have clear evidence of yet is them pissing large amounts of member energy and money up the wall on ineffectual projects that only cause burnout and egregious waste of resources.
Whether their efforts are an intentional, cynical plan to act as wreckers or whether they're just a bunch of larping dorks running a vanity project, essentially the outcomes are the same in a material sense regardless of whether or not it's a legitimate psyop and thus the question of whether it might be one is valid yet ultimately it doesn't change what they're doing and the impacts that it will have.
Don't get me wrong I'd be the first one to pop a bottle of champagne if a smoking gun was discovered for this but it's not that likely to happen, and even if it does then it might well be years and years before it is found, so I'm not holding my breath for it.
It's a bit of a walks like a duck/quacks like a duck situation as far as I'm concerned.