The revcom legitimately got brainwashed into a cult group, how the fuck did Amerikkka mindbreak domestic groups so badly? Dude has done nothing for years. There're apparently 80 page pamphlets written by their "organization" and literally an updated news page trying to market this guy as their leader.
>>2744732The tumult in the U.S. in the 1960s had many important and good effects on American society. There was the civil rights movement which was followed by the peace movement. The culture changed. Also the women's movement came out of the 1960s. It didn't change the politics of the country very much but still these things were important. Those cultural changes also produced a reaction and attempts to turn back the clock, and also right-wing governments have caused a lot of economic damage, so the gains from that period were not fully consolidated. Well, it has gone back and forth, it's like economic cycles.
I think these cults emerge from that process. It's like enervation. I think that word fits because it refers to fatigue, being drained of energy, but it's more mental than physical. I was thinking that people join them because they get very involved in movements which are frustrated in some kind of way. This leads to burnout, or people just settle down and become liberals, but there's also some subset of people who double down and join cults led by a Great Leader which provides them a stable point of reference and frees them from having to think for themselves.
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Western leftists are suffering until a western revolution. Believe.
Back in the early aughts RCP was quite strong in my town. They organized massive protests against police brutality and had a substantial base of working class youth from ghetto neighborhoods. In demonstrations they were quite combative. Even their leadership encouraged direct action and confrontation with the pigs. Their "Red Bloc" (black bloc with red bandanas printed with their org logo) was prone to spontaneous collaboration with the black bloc. Lighter tactics, more timid and less prepared but they did their part.
Sure it's a weird cult and the cult of Bob is cringe as fuck but tbh their praxis on the street was a lot better than "more respectable" ML orgs or sucdems that always try to police and pacify direct action in favor of legality.
>>2744808I came across a picture of them that was probably from around that time and they did look fairly large (well, for one of these groups, more than today) and carrying a lot of energy. Hard to find now because that Trot group rebranded to a similar name which clogs up the search results.
>>2744799Haz and Hinkle are just figureheads because the ACP realised how important engagement is online.
From what I understand, most people in the ACP don't take them seriously, the main ideological guys in the ACP are Midwestern Marx.
I think Maupin at the CPI more leans to cult-leader style figure.
>>2744808Love their older posters
>>2744837thats def true wrt to Maupin, also had no idea that Midwestern Marx was in the ACP but it does make sense
Americans have some strange cultural / genetic attraction to cults.
Maybe it's to do with so many of them being the refuse thrown out of Europe in the 1600/1700/1800s for being religious schizos.
>>2744992Desperate proles tend to have an attraction to low effort slop cults especially. It's not just a yankee thing. RCP tended to attract a lot of inner city blacks and latin@s, not WASPs. But both of those demographics tend to get involved in sects as well. It's fair to say these serve as substitute for the tight knit evangelical/baptist churches they were brought up with. They were smart enough to reject the christian ideology but have an internalized affinity for the underlying patriarchic social structure.
>>2745019And also a substitute for street gangs like Latin Kings or the Crips.
>>2745065Indeed. the C.R.I.P.s
Community Revolution In Progress/ were actually an offshoot of the Black Panthers tho. It's said they were called "crippled" because they all carried around canes as part of their "uniform" (+black leather jacket and beret).
The Panthers were very cult-like themselves, and come to think of it Bob Avakian's militancy goes back to the time of leading the White Panthers in the rainbow coalition. He's literally White Huey.
When you think about it every organization is a cult.
Based maoist cult
Imagine forming a cult of personality before you even obtain state power lmao
>>2744808This.
It's been largely supressed by the bourgeois newsmedia and the memory lives on in the documentary evidence held my current/past members, but the RCP in the late 70s and 80s was absolutely not fucking around
I’m glad they turned around on the gay issue
>>2744799>>2744837the ACP is more akin to blackhammer than the avakian RCP
Maoist internal practices tend to share some elements with how cults function, so a sect based on Maoism becoming a cult ain’t too strange
>>2784767This tbh, at least when you've seized state power your guy has something to boast about. Otherwise it's like uhhhhh our guy has like uhhhh really good ideas or smt
How the fuck is Avakian still alive?
We need to organise cagefight between Haz and Avakian
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