Kick The Cowards Out of The Left: How to Push Back Against The Far-Right
The Left in the West is full of cowards, sectarians, and traitors. The Left must return back to its roots and centralize it's efforts to push back against the growing fascist movement.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Socials at bottom of the article.
We Are Outnumbered Against The State, Fascists, Liberals and The Saboteurs Within:
We on the Left often avoid having the hard discussion, the discussion of how we are more likely to lose than win because the Left in the West, like the liberals, have the arrogant view that we’ll inevitably win because we have the better positions and values. Many on the Left want to avoid any negative discussion around this, but the reality is this discussion needs to be had and organizing from this point must acknowledge this concern.
I need you to understand this and understand it well, if you aren’t able to understand this, it means you can’t let go of your liberalism which has destroyed your perception of reality:
When things get difficult, the masses WILL NOT rally to those who have the better positions and beliefs, they’ll rally to who is strongest and can provide ALL their needs and safety. Most human beings DO NOT care about beliefs more than they do order and balance when things begin to get worse for their lives. This is why, in times of crisis, the masses side by the fascists if the Left is not strong enough to protect them.
We can argue that certain communities will come to our side, that is definitely debatable; and while it is good, we shouldn’t celebrate certain left-leaning communities coming to our side when the overwhelming majority move towards the enemy side for safety and necessities. The abandoning of class politics for identity politics & culture wars, that is common from the Western perception of what is “Left,” has caused significant harm. It is because of the degradation of the Left in America in particular due to the mass assault on the Marxist-Leninists, rise of the “New Left” with the Congress for Cultural Freedom, hippies and liberalization of the Left, not to mention the Anarchists, Trotskyists and others filling the void, that it is no surprise the “Left” in America is too self-destructive and cowardly to use the 21st century tools available to us to dominate mainstream narratives. The Left in the West had and still has all the same tools, capabilities and their own winnable strategies to rise our politics into the mainstream just like the far-right has, but internal sabotage and playing nice with the liberals has weakened us and made us ineffective.
The Far-Right is Out-Organizing us, We Need to Cease Our Current Ineffectiveness:
The far-right went from a fringe, largely online community in the deep corners of the internet like 4chan, to becoming a common sight in real world events; organizing large rallies, organizations, spreading their propaganda through media sensationalism, clinging onto culture wars, white nationalist identity politics, and political campaigns, etc.
Let’s track the rise of the far-right to today (summarized):
From 2000-2016, most of the far-right was active on 4chan and other obscure forums, launching propaganda campaign after propaganda campaign. Meme’s became a subtle yet powerful method to micro-dose fascist beliefs and racism into the population. They began working like a collective organism in making sure these meme’s got spread into every social media platform, every online group, every discord server, etc. Most of the Western Left is still stuck in this stage of using memes as a method of educating. The culture wars during this period was useful phenomenons for the far-right to polarize and fear monger specific communities to their side through meme propaganda; because culture wars in America are polarized identity politics and social issues, which allow either liberalism to grow or white nationalism to grow. Not Left values which mainly cover economics and systemic oppression. The far-right hasn’t stopped using meme propaganda, but it’s propaganda creation is now a lot more direct, organized and centralized and has been since 2017; much of the propaganda from the far-right now comes from within organizations or activist circles.
From 2016-2020, with the rise of a right-wing populist (Trump), the far-right saw it’s opportunity after noticing how large their (the far-right) numbers got since the 2000’s. They begin following behind those who have been working out in the open, people like Richard Spencer, and begin infiltrating Trump rallies to secretly direct people to their propaganda channels; as their propaganda channels begin pushing content promoting Trump so that random conservatives will find it. This would later change in 2018 as the far-right (at least the majority of) starts to attack Trump and Trump supporters for not being far-right enough, hoping that Trump supporters would agree and side by them (the majority didn’t, and as such Trumpers began kicking them out); but that didn’t matter as some of the far-right’s propaganda was already being accepted and used by average conservatives (the great replacement theory & open borders are two of these beliefs for example).
From 2016 to 2024, within recent years the far-right have, for the most part, abandoned the Trump supporters and focused mainly on organizing within their circles to influence communities. Organizations and mass movements like Patriot Front, National Socialist Movement, White Lives Matter, the Activist Clubs and others; have been mobilizing their numbers to mass spread propaganda across states, organize mass rallies and agitate media sensationalism, going to locations affected by climate catastrophes to assist and make themselves look good, doing mutual aid to win over impoverished rural communities the Western fake “Left” largely abandoned, etc. All these events and acts by the far-right have had a heavy influence on the average person, especially the “mutual aid” and rallies alone have drawn them many supporters and newly radicalized recruits, as even admitted by the founder of Patriot Front. Today the far-right are a more centralized, unified and focused movement; even if the occasional infighting happens, it isn’t enough to break them away from their determined aim which is to win over the population and violently remove the communities they hate.
The Western Left acts like it knows how the far-right has came to being mainstream, and I can say with 100% certainty, no they don’t. At least the majority don’t. The majority of the Left is too scared to even study their ideologies yet alone track their movements and growth; the age old logic of war “know your enemy” seems to be abandoned with the American “New Left.” While the majority of the Left was too busy fighting over theory, making every issue an issue to divide and infight over, attacking random people for having the slightest disagreement in beliefs, abandoning entire communities and sections of the working class for not being “left” enough, never organizing and even attacking ALL Left organizations for not being pure enough or not being a specific Left ideology (this doesn’t include the liberal dominated CPUSA); all while that is happening the far-right have been weaponizing all the tools available to mass influence and centralize reach. The liberalization of the Western Left, the abandoning class politics as a central issue, the cowardice to organize and leave one’s comfort zone, and the ego and sectarianism that has been encouraged in the “Left” has kept us so behind that we are not remotely ready to fight on an equal level. This is why I’ve spoken A LOT on why the “New Left” needs a collective reassessment and to abandon the “Leftist” title, behaviors and strategy. Which leads me to my next point.
If You Aren’t Willing to Organize in Mass, Get Out:
This message isn’t just for the chronically online Leftist who spends more time complaining online than getting to know his community; this also goes to the Left organizations whose pride and ego keeps them from building the United Front because they fear not being the central organization in any concept of a revolution taking place, be it realistic or in their heads.
Let’s stress some important points that need to be stressed:
If you’re chronically online, either get involved with an organization and become an agent of digital propaganda, or leave. Being chronically online means nothing if you aren’t organized with a group; your individual actions cause more harm than if you was with an organization.
Get your priorities straight. Many in the Western Left are distracted by much of their normal lives. I don’t know why you think you, a person who subscribed to an ideology the US hates and deems its enemy, are somehow going to have the same lifestyle as an average working class person or the American Dream believer. You aren’t. You have verbally said you support Socialism, Communism, Anarchism, etc. and the State replied with “Ok, you’re going on a watch list because you can become a potential threat for me.” Your lack of OPSEC and open testament to violence has allowed potential job recruiters to blacklist you and tell others to avoid hiring you. Rather you want to acknowledge it or not because of your privilege of not feeling the heat as much as some of your comrades are, you are in the trenches with us. Get your priorities straight, you are wasting large sums of time on chasing a normal life or fighting idiots online for dopamine when all it takes is one bad enough crisis and the State is dragging you out and lining you against the wall with the Socialist & Communist organizers.
If you are with an organization, or are a leader of an organization, stress to them the importance of the United Front and see to it that is created and mobilized as soon as possible. If the organization’s leadership is too bullheaded to accept building or joining a United Front, leave them and encourage leaving them. We should have no tolerance for organizations whose leadership is functionally useless or too egotistical to look at the bigger picture and build for the whole instead of themselves.
The “big tent” strategy of radicalizing liberals to the Left has been largely a failed useless strategy. While some exceptions may have came from it, those who did got sucked into the same ineffectiveness of the Western Left who is more consumed by infighting, radical liberalism and ideological purity than organizing and centralizing our forces and capabilities.
You need to accept and understand most workers are more concerned about class related issues & war, not culture war or identity politics. The way Leftists in America treats political issues is similar to liberals; less focus on economic issues vs social issues, barely challenge imperialism, almost never plan feasible strategies or programs to assist badly affected communities outside of occasional charity, talk for years online about issues just to feel heard within your given echo chamber, etc. For every issue that exists, economic and none, the reality is workers want insight from people who are actively helping their livelihood become better, not people who want to browbeat them for not being caught up with newest Western concepts of “progressivism” or culture war trends. Workers don’t see a reason why they should trust or care about what you have to say until you prove to them why they should. You serve them, not the other way around; if you can’t understand that, you aren’t a Socialist or a Communist.
Less talk, more action. Everyone in the Western Left loves to talk and argue from their individual view of things, that is useful ONLY when it’s being done to grow an organization or mobilize forces, not to infight and waste our time and potential on incompetent spectacles. Every organization is struggling with lack of people and/or lack of money to do what needs to be done; there is plenty “left-wing” people who can easily solve this, but prefer to watch from afar or keep their money to themselves hoping someone else fronts the bill for them so that there privilege or comfort isn’t challenged. This same mentality is also why the far-right is rising with little to no opposition. There is plenty of “left-wing” people that, if centralized, could easily get some spies to infiltrate every single fascist organization and meet their rallies with equal force; but the lack of centralization is why they plan their rallies in private and show up with almost no opposition. The Western Left loves to talk about how willing they are to shut down fascists, but yet there is little to no sabotaging fascist organizations or meeting them with equal fire power. Again, less talk, more action.
I am NOT a Hippie “Leftist” who cares more about infighting or the latest culture war trend, I’m an Armed Communist who only cares about revolutionary systemic change for all. Anything less than that should be looked at with contempt. I don’t care what Left-Winger is fighting beside me so long as they’re fighting for the same goal and not “lighting our ammo caches on fire.” I don’t care if a working class community is not pure enough, not “left” enough, I only care that they support us as the ones who protect them and assist their needs. I don’t care about how much a Leftist knows, I care about what they use it for. I don’t care what an organization has done, I care that they are genuinely focused on building across party lines for something bigger than a PR stunt that makes themselves feel good.
The New Strategy:
Whatever strategy or concept of a strategy we had or are still using needs to be largely abandoned and replaced with the following. Ideologically the Left in the West may be a mix of many different beliefs, much of them ineffective, but the biggest things getting in the way of us being even 5% stronger is our lack of centralization, lack of OPSEC and encrypted communications, lack of militancy, and mass avoidance of organizing.
Most Strategically important:
Encrypted mass communication network
We need either organizations or a collective to build a shared encrypted communication network/server for organizers, propagandists and others to use. Something that can not easily be used against us or seized by our opponents. This is as much a necessity as it was for the far-right who chose Telegram for their means to communicate until Telegram became compromised.
These communication lines must be controlled by a legal entity, be this in form of an organization that is devoted to no specific political party, or a LLC whose only objective goal is providing this service to the Left as a whole.
The server needs to have specific channels for specific organizations and separate channels for propagandists. These communications can allow organizations to plan and organize in complete privacy. They can also allow propaganda to be more collectively created and promoted without outside sabotage.
There also needs to be a channel for organizers/leaders of all Left organizations in order to centrally plan and respond to issues in a fast-paced way that allows the strengthening of the United Front.
There also needs to be a separate channel for Left-Wing people who are not affiliated with any party so to have a base to mobilize if need be; that means the channel will become a place for organizers (of groups) from other channels on the server to rally numbers for mass movements, events, or drop finished propaganda to be spread.
There needs to be a channel that is used by all organizations to funnel the more militant sections of their rank and file into and use for security to events, protection for working class neighborhoods, militant opposition to fascist rallies, etc. The Left needs an actual armed wing that acts similar to an army rather than an “anarchist black bloc” group.
Mass build the United Front
The United Front must be built on common similar positions: Anti-Fascism, Anti-Imperialism, Socialism, Class War. All organizations involved must be united on these principles.
Most rallies, events, agitation, or programs must be built and involve all organizations in the United Front. Unity of all will build faster than the unity of one.
Abandon organizations that aren’t willing to build the United Front, there is nothing more important than seeing an end to fascism, imperialism and the rise of socialism and class war. Any organization not willing to accept this doesn’t need our labor, time, money or concern.
Propaganda and Activism must become modern and more effective
We need to minimize how far original propaganda is spread across the internet and spread copies while the original stays back in two primary locations. What I am saying is original finished pieces of Left propaganda need to be safe and secure in a central storage drive and provided in one location online permanently (namely, a Left website). Copies of the original from that point can be spread around, but the original must be easy to return back to when needed. This can protect against original media being censored and lost forever to social media censorship. This is what the far-right have done with protecting their propaganda and keeping it locked behind their servers and provided for all on archive.org with little censorship, that or their own propaganda websites.
All Left-Wing people should be more willing to spread propaganda and agitate thoughts as they currently are to infight. The current Left has a horrible habit of secluding ourselves to our echo chambers and avoiding large parts of working class communities who desperately need our assistance and insight into fixing their struggles. Until we break out of this “serving ourselves” and making ourselves feel good and accept serving others and making the collective part of ourselves, we will never see our propaganda become mainstream.
This means our propaganda must be a collective effort and it must be relatable across all communities, which is what class war politics is.
Everyone who regards themselves as “Left” must spread our propaganda into every online community and physical community. No where should be beyond our reach; even the small rural community should see our propaganda occasionally plastered on the side of buildings, hung off the side of bridges, etc. and direct them back to the United Front to further expose class war politics to their curiosity.
Most Culturally important:
Abandon useless behaviors and subconscious beliefs
Liberalism, sectarianism, ego, pride, spontaneity, political nihilism, purity fetishism, individualism to name the worse of many; must be abandoned across the movement for the Western Left to finally become as effective as their political opposites.
OPSEC
Study cyber security and intelligence gathering techniques, you need to learn what to protect against. OPSEC is a key to safety and being functionally effective.
Study & practice useful knowledge
Socialist theory, history and geopolitics, as useful and necessary as they are, are simply part of the information any effective revolutionary consumes. To become flexible and effective in all fields or situations, you need to study philosophy, sociology, psychology, the Art of War, 48 Laws of Power, military strategies, CIA/FBI body language reading skills, survivalism & prepping, infiltration and espionage techniques, and more. You have to understand that these elements of knowledge have allowed people to dominate their opponents; your brain is the most powerful weapon on the face of the earth and history backs that up. To be effective in any situation you need to leverage control over, be it to avoid a threat or obtaining a victory, means you must know and use what you learned and practiced.
Encourage joining organizations, shame being politically unaffiliated
Not all organizations are the same, some are good, some are horrible. Many will use you for your labor, time and money then drop you when you’re no longer useful; but even that is still fixable with enough people aiming to address it. Additionally, no, your random collective of 3-5 people isn’t going to change the country, especially if it is unaffiliated with larger groups. If you agree with some organizations on the majority of points yet still see them as incomplete because they aren’t completely in sync with you, you are putting your individualism, ego and pride above collective necessity. A group of 3-5 people is useless in surface mass politics and is only effective in covert operations relevant to its size and capabilities.
Only through a collective reassessment, centralization, and purging of self-destructive beliefs, groups and/or individuals from the Left can the Left in America finally become more effective than it is in its current pitiful state.
The Left needs to return back to it’s roots, we need a rebirth, otherwise we will lose just based on our ineffectiveness making us easy to crush by the mass centralization of the State and the fascist organizations.
Remember to subscribe and follow my other socials; this is my uncensored webpage, as Linktree has censored some of my links:
https://islamicsocialist.systeme.io/socials
Subscribe to my Patreon or make a donation on Ko-fi to support my work:
https://www.patreon.com/IslamicML
https://ko-fi.com/islamicsocialist
Follow the Telegram:
https://t.me/islamicsocialist
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License