Before they started nailing pig heads everywhere, and fighting with DSA members, and were known for fighting fascists, I had some respect for them.
Until a comrade who was locally active at the time told me that it was a fiction and they rarely ever defended anything.
A few took pot shots and ran, which ain't a bad thing, tbh. But mostly they did shit to invite the fash into the neighborhoods then took credit for what happened afterwards.
And also a lot of what they did, like in your march example, piggybacked off of other movements, causing confusion and sapping their strength.
Before they started nailing pig heads everywhere, and fighting with DSA members, and were known for fighting fascists, I had some respect for them.
Until a comrade who was locally active at the time told me that it was a fiction and they rarely ever defended anything.
A few took pot shots and ran, which ain't a bad thing, tbh. But mostly they did shit to invite the fash into the neighborhoods then took credit for what happened afterwards.
And also a lot of what they did, like in your march example, piggybacked off of other movements, causing confusion and sapping their strength.
Yeah. A friend of mine said they got the shit beat out of them by fash when the Red Guards were armed.
Yeah. Stoke tensions, then run away. That's what I was told.