Admitting that they had been working for several years without any discernible success, FBI agents confirmed Wednesday that a local left-wing political group was too disorganized to infiltrate. “We’ve had a few guys in there posing as members and trying to manipulate them into committing acts of violence we can arrest them for, but these people don’t ever do anything violent—they don’t ever do anything at all,” an undercover FBI agent told reporters, adding that the agency believed they’d made headway with turning the leader of the Liberation Socialists group into an informant until the guy didn’t show up to a meeting for months. “These people are incredibly disorganized. We try to attend their meetings to get them to unwittingly work on our behalf, but half the time no one shows up but the undercover agents, and the other half of the time the meetings are so confusing it’s impossible to follow what they’re actually trying to do. We also tried to sow division in their ranks to ensure that they couldn’t become powerful, but that didn’t work because these people already all fucking hate each other. They spend all their time arguing about minutiae, and most of the time when we try to talk them into doing something violent to the communal spaces in their community, they don’t even know where to go. They’re just a mess.” The FBI agent added that he was worried the left-wing organization was on to him, as he’d already aroused suspicion by interrupting a meandering discussion of principles with a straightforward plan of action.
Where I live we have like four communist parties. They are all small and completely politically irrelevant. Three of them are full of boomers, speak like a 1970’s pamphlet and haven’t said a single word about racism, homophobia or transphobia. It seems like all they do is hoovering meetings and writing articles nobody outside the party well ever read. The last one is full of young energetic people, they seem pretty intersectionalist, they know how to communicate on social media and engage people outside the party, they are also a bunch of Trots who are still publicly butthurt over Stalin.
There are no good options.
Socialist Alternative is everywhere man
I think they call themselves the Revolutionary Communist Party around here. It seems well-intentioned and I’m sure there’s lots of good people in that org but it is really sad to see so much energy and talent being pissed up the wall.
I get the appeal of Trotskyism in the west, it allows you to align with the communist politics that are obviously just and rational without having to confront the internalised anti-communism that you have been spoon-fed all your life.
i went to a socialist alternative meeting a few years ago (before covid) and they spent the entire time talking about the “revolution” in catalonia and then auctioned off a newspaper for $100 as a way of supporting said catalonian independence movement. basically a parody of a pointless trot org
oh my god that’s amazing
Trots are so completely useless. I say I’d rather go to a Trot meeting than not organise at all, but let’s be honest, the minute someone brings up Stalin, I’ll manage to get myself thrown out.