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[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

They'll crack down on the left regardless of what we do.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

People say that a lot, but it's not really true. The state will make some encroachment hear or there periodically, but it's nothing like the immediate move to crush dissent and organizing that we see when we give them an excuse. Probably the closest thing to a real argument is that "well, they'll generate that excuse with agent provocateurs or whatever" to which I say "the correct response is to stop agent provocateurs, not do their work for them". There's a reason that the feds have a long history of trying to turn leftist activists (among others) into terrorists, and it's because terrorism is useful to the state.

[-] newmou@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

The excuse “not being given” is indicative of the general lack of leftist action; when that happens, repression will follow in tow

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

I agree, so let's make sure that we are ready for it by developing leftist organization and that what the leftist action accomplishes is worth the blowback

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Lone wolves are useful to the state. Organized action however, is not.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

I was explicitly referring to adventurists

I think traditional adventurist actions like that tend to just be used as a pretext for cracking down on the left

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