There are lots of wrong things with this country, where do I even fucking start, but this really bothers me. I've been a bit involved with a little cool local BLM-affiliated organisation that grew a lot during the Floyd protests. They aren't exactly Maoists, but their politics were about Bernie level which is definitely good enough in this god forsaken country. Guess what? The white founder and de facto leader has suddenly erased every anti-police post from the Instagram feed and posted a Kamala dance celebration instead. Literally everything in this fucking coutnry is a grift, I googled an old BLM activist "friend" who got grifting work in an ultra lib congress campaign, no BLM posting anymore as well for them. This endless grifting culture is genuinely making me crazy, how the fuck do we deal with this? Look at the Bernie campaign, I'd say that more than 75% of the leading campaign figures have exposed their ultra grifting.

        • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          I'm not talking specifically about political parties necessarily, but any sort of "professional revolutionary" type organization like you're talking about is going to be open to infiltrators that aim to hurt the direction of the group.

          Among the two most common types of orgs, i.e. broad based highly committed ones around a central set of ideals vs single issue ones. The former would likely have FBI infiltrators if it got big enough, and the later tries to spread so fast that when the issue is no longer a hot topic, different chapters of the group no longer have a singular purpose, and you end up only needing like 10 people to completely take it over.