https://twitter.com/marco_cpp/status/1331174925919514625
The Austin Red Guard dissolved exactly when the 2018 federal shutdown started, and immediately went back to harrasing socialists when the shutdown ended, and FBI funding resumed.
I guess COINTELPRO assets are non-essential employees. 😢
Fighting the terrible Phillipines state that is at the beck and call of semifeudal landowners = liberalism.
Fighting the DSA = based revolutionary action.
God, the pure unhinged nature of RGA is the gift that keeps on giving.
This is a good thing. That this struggle is starting to form at all is an incredibly positive sign for the prospects of a reborn American far-left.
American Maoists coming to struggle with international comrades makes me optimistic for the future.
I’d like to advance a dopaminergic theory of politics and entertainment in 2020: we’re not going back to normal politics because it no longer gets us high.
Conflict between niche far-left groups and between those groups and reactionaries is going to have a disproportionate effect on discourse as we go deeper into political pathology in search of blood and hot takes.
some dude on a jungle island somewhere typing this rebuke from a cave filled with AKs
Red Guards in shambles
Are these red guards the skinny armed college kids that do fuck all but try to intimidate dsa members?
I think I read that someone looked into the Austin Red Guard members and some of them had felony charges that were suspiciously dropped or they were paroled :thonk:
Which Red Guards write the "Tribune of the People"? Red Guards Austin?
Kansas city redguards fucked with the dsa chapter there too iirc.
They recently announced they were "suspending all revolutionary activities" to "manage their budget." So yeah, they clearly do.
They also do LaRouchist kind of shit like disrupting other leftist organizer meetings like DSA. (Not that DSA is the vanguard or anything, but my experiences with them have been fairly good.) I can't really think of anything more counterproductive than the kind of shit RGA does constantly.
I knew the Tribune of the People was run by some sketchy group because they are extremely vague about who they are.
There was a guy who used to post on here a lot that would always stan the Reg Guards and said he wasn't one but he was friends with some. I think his name was fuckupthepaint or fuckitupinthepaint or something. I haven't seen him in a while though
Yeah they finally left after it wasn't working lol. The account was cnqpo or something.
Fr I can't imagine any serious communist choosing to get involved with fucking red guards in America. Like FTP and the United Panther Movement exist if you insist on being a maoist.
CPP is dope as fuck. They have their own online newspaper with a youtube channel, Ang Bayan is the name of it
Microsect ultraleft group in the US. The most famous portion of them is Red Guards Austin, who are either feds, a cult, or both.
Their praxis is annoying PSL/DSA and spraypainting slogans in poor neighborhoods.
I don't even like cpp but God damn that's amazing they took the time to dunk on the op or insanity that is top.
IMO, the movement has been utterly broken since the big split they had in the early 90s. They're treading water in the rural areas of the country, and don't really have a presence in urban areas which are half the population. I think they're stuck in the past basically, unable to move forward, and the Philippine state is slowly overtaking them. They are in no position to win a war that's been going on for 50 years now (same with the Naxals in India). If the Philippine department of the interior is to be believed, their task force of getting people to quit via cash payments, job training, and housing assistance has resulted in thousands of CPP (and NDF more broadly) supporters quitting the group. If you look at the conflict timeline throughout the 2010s, it's basically there's a few incidents a year (some of which are very questionable to me, like running protection rackets under the guise of "revolutionary taxes" against local farmers or taking bribes from companies that do exploit local people, or killing government social workers in rural areas. Like how can you expect to be supported if you exploit people alongside the government and mining companies for instance) or there's a big spate of activity for a couple months when the ceasefire breaks down for a bit before it's re-established, and no growth. They don't actually pose a threat to the national government.
In reality, their goal from year to year is more about last long enough to start figuring out how to pressure the government more, and recruit enough to keep existing. As the situation grows worse, it results in some really bad internal practices, like the armed wing, the NPA has executed new recruits (who are often students wooed by NPA recruiters from their schools) who try to leave after getting disillusioned before. Another issue is that different NPA subgroups and other NDF orgs are pretty much independent of each other, some really do try and help, but others don't. I know anecdotes where someone was approached by one group asking for like school supplies to distribute, then the next month they had a different one show up demanding laptops and threatening violence if protection money was not paid.
It's not a pretty picture, and it's why some of their most high profile leaders quit over the years. You can't be a progressive revolutionary force if the only way you survive is by counter revolutionary activity.
This is some great critique. It seems the individual cells need to be placed under stronger party ideological control to reduce the grift and bad takes. It is hard to differentiate a protection racket from a taxation scheme, but I wonder how much of that is western propaganda.
As someone watching from the West, I though the NPA was growing in size in recent years, certainly around 2010 there was dropping membership. I'd also heard positive things about their increasing territory control.
