generally speaking the only way to know for sure someone isnt fbi is if you find them at work, or at school, or in a club, and they happen to also share left wing views, and you become friends with them over a year or so. it cant be a place that is for leftists.
One year is typically a pretty good benchmark, but secrets can be kept for years, even sometimes from people who believe an agent is their life partner.
One thing that's probably a good rule is to check how much they've invested in it. If someone puts a substantial amount of time and effort into a project (or a collateral "loyalty fund" in the case of a direct action), they are probably honest about what they say they are. There's only so much that one small individual (or couple) could be bribed, and if that's less than the use value that could be gained, the judgment should be pretty clear.
It's unlikely that intelligence agencies would put lots of resources into building anticapitalist projects that they wouldn't exercise clear control over. Because of course, if things get out of hand, they've just directly worked against themselves, and can't pull the plug. On a related note, anyone who stresses the need for "central command" is probably a fed.
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generally speaking the only way to know for sure someone isnt fbi is if you find them at work, or at school, or in a club, and they happen to also share left wing views, and you become friends with them over a year or so. it cant be a place that is for leftists.
One year is typically a pretty good benchmark, but secrets can be kept for years, even sometimes from people who believe an agent is their life partner.
One thing that's probably a good rule is to check how much they've invested in it. If someone puts a substantial amount of time and effort into a project (or a collateral "loyalty fund" in the case of a direct action), they are probably honest about what they say they are. There's only so much that one small individual (or couple) could be bribed, and if that's less than the use value that could be gained, the judgment should be pretty clear.
It's unlikely that intelligence agencies would put lots of resources into building anticapitalist projects that they wouldn't exercise clear control over. Because of course, if things get out of hand, they've just directly worked against themselves, and can't pull the plug. On a related note, anyone who stresses the need for "central command" is probably a fed.
sure, but those instances, the police went to explicitly leftist events and found people to date