im someone whose been interested in secret societies and clandestine shit, but i was always surprised how there were so few left-wing ones, compared to the myriad of right wing secret societies, since the only one i could find anything about is the spanish anarchist secret org called "The Disinherited".
why does the left seemingly not utilize secret societies, or are most of the left secret socs just really good at staying secret?
>>2622440What do you think a communist party in illegal circumstances is?
the illuminati were a leftist secret society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_the_Justhttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_des_saisonsThe first modern Communist parties spawned out of Communist Secret Societies.
In Central Europe Trade Unionism and strikes originate in medieval brotherhoods of free craftsmen who used strikes to fight against bad guilds (the guilds were organized bourgeois craftsmen who owned the means of production). These brotherhoods had necessarily clandestine elements to it.
The brotherhoods still exist (just like the guilds) but kinda forgot & abandoned class struggle, only the traditional clothes, ethics, rules & rituals are upheld today which are still quite "left" nonetheless. Unfortunately most journeymen today are not aware of how "left" their brotherhoods used to be and what purpose they served over centuries aside from journey related matters.
>>2622440Nowadays leftism is too oriented around egalitarianism which conflicts with the inherent elitism of secret societies.
>why does the left seemingly not utilize secret societies, or are most of the left secret socs just really good at staying secret?
Weird nebulous use of 'the left'.
0) In countries where socialism isn't directly surpressed, it's beneficial to be open and public. We're trying to build a mass movement, not conspire to assassinate people like the Propaganda of the Deed 1890s fiasco (assassinated a whole bunch of industrialists, police chiefs and heads of state - normal people didn't rise up). So unless there's an actual strategic necessity to be a private secret movement, it's a HUGE logistical disadvantage.
e.g. one of the recently dissolved M-L parties in my country drove members away by taking laborious, unnecessary cybersecurity precautions essentially just to group-watch The Deprogram and run a soup kitchen.
1) There are concepts like antifascist affinity groups who are adjacent to those secret societies. The bigger a society is, the harder it is to keep a secret, so don't expect some huge Masonic lodge of communists doing fuckass handshakes and meeting in halls. Consider groups of 2-10 people. Additionally, a lot of antifascists are anonymous, even when publishing their actions online.