>>2760331>>even more strikingly the lack of security culture these young protesters seem to possess.>>This indicates the spontaneous nature of their rupture more than it does the concerted effort of a revolutionary minorityI will have to disagree. I know comrades who are deeply embedded in an investigative journalism collective, one that uses study, investigation, and research to protect organizers. Through them, and through my own experiences, I observed a series of very strange patterns that began emerging around 2014, though I did not yet grasp their full scope at the time. Over the years, the escalating targeting has pushed the vanguard further and deeper into the dark.
What is happening now is that after 2020, the FBI, along with a host of other federal agencies and private NGOs, immediately began investigating and covertly (and openly) but heavily disrupting three specific formations, anarchists, the pro‑Palestinian liberation left, and the Black revolutionary Maoists who serve as elders to younger organizers. They have always done this, but they ramped it up heavily in this era in response to the success of these formations acting as unit. Analysts from the GWOT determined that the major successes of these formations in modern anti‑police and prison struggles were what led to the George Floyd uprising boiling over, not spontaneity. They identified individuals who consistently flew to places like Chile, Mexico City, Greece, Belfast, Italy, all places with a very militant left (based on stories from people I cant share). The fbi even began to question a lot of individuals who they believed were trained in certain things by "kurds" due to their flights.
You had major prison strikes, anarchists in the IWW communicating with radical prisoners who organized prison riots and work stoppages, the biggest prison strike in U.S. history, and waves of city‑level anti‑police riots that grew in intensity with each occurrence. Anarchists and Maoists of this era often communicated with families of people murdered by police more directly than Democrats did, and the FBI knew this. In fact, this is how I was introduced to these politics. A friend of mine was killed by police. Liberals tried to pacify all his rowdy friends and family, but anarchists and Maoists organized outlets for them and taught them how to stay safe if they wanted to “go hard.” So what we know is this new wave of COINTELPRO was built on years of investigations from Ferguson, Baltimore, and the broader anti‑police and prison system movements. Those three groups, anarchists, the pro‑Palestinian liberation left, and the Black revolutionary Maoist elders became the primary targets. The operation began under the tail end of the Obama administration and has steadily intensified ever since.
The decentralized nature of these movements means that beyond the current active arrests and long prison sentences exhausting people, there are very dirty covert tactics at play such as fake social networks in real life (essentially gang‑stalking), rumors, varying attempts to drive individuals insane, attempts on people’s lives, covert assassinations, tampering with vehicles and personal property, costing people their jobs, manipulating relationship troubles, manipulating people into acting out of character through breaking their mental-state down, the list goes on. The decentralized nature of the movements, offering no central decapitation, means they have begun to identify leadership based on “age,” “knowledge,” and “years of experience.” The goal is not investigation but disruption of people’s lives, a modernized idea of Zersetzung / COINTELPRO. The most seasoned anarchists and Maoists are under a covert intelligence‑agency‑level war right now, and the broader left will not offer them support when they currently sit in prison, so why should anyone expect support for those suffering covert repression? This leaves the youth increasingly disconnected from those who would be sharing them the lessons learned over the years. Which is what makes sharing knowledge like this, and taking it seriously, very important.
The main issue is that the left with the most resources and legitimacy to operate in public spheres does not support the prisoners and repressed people of their own movements. Abroad, maybe in theory, but as soon as you get hard time in Amerikkka, the left forgets about you and engages in election cycles. In real revolutionary movements, they campaign hard for every single person behind enemy lines or under attack. That is the difference.
source for the term used;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung