What worries me about this is that it takes people who have those right-wing views and connect them in the real world. Like, in an Internet time where community is more rare, this actually takes those people and creates a real-world community. In what ways are non-right wing people organizing?
link doesn’t show me the article
In what ways are non-right wing people organizing?
Organizing for what? Counter-partols?
More optimistic than the title suggests: https://medium.com/@carmitage/i-researched-every-attempt-to-stop-fascism-in-history-the-success-rate-is-0-a665e2e048a2
Thanks for sharing that article; it’s reassuring to see others be so lucid about what the current situation actually is.
the biggest thing left wing organizing can do is give people a sense that they are cared for and safe. it doesn’t have to be patrols, though it has gotten far enough that you may have to use your bodies as barricades that won’t let the fascists through. the more likely thing you’ll want to do in counter organizing is give people in need food. people are simple. we will think of whoever feeds us as being our saviors and salvation. you want to make sure people don’t join a right wing paramilitary? give them food. talk to them. listen to what they’re worried about. soothe their pain.
right wing politics are all about control through power. left wing politics are all about liberation through coalition building to resist that power.
right wing politics are all about control through power. left wing politics are all about liberation through coalition building to resist that power.
Whether the ideology used in authoritarian propaganda is left-sounding or right-sounding doesn’t really make a difference, and messages that may appeal to both sides are often used together.
To me your “power vs resistance” dichotomy sounds more like “authority vs anarchy” that “right vs left”.
Personally, I’d say the difference between left and right lies mainly in the equilibrium between striving for social equality (which right-wing people could refer to as “welfarism”) and defending the acquired rights of individuals (which left-wing people could call “furthering privileges”), but then of course it’s not like people/parties stand in an uni-dimensional spectrum (“trust in the future vs fear of the future” could also be a good way to characterize “left vs right”).
In any way that creates social capital/community in real life. I don’t mean counter-patrols. It’s just that a patrol happens to be social capital (of the bad kind)
I don’t know, but support your local anarchist book club.