Such harmful actions include any violence, or threat of violence, that's done on behalf of the party but that isn't approved by democratic centralism. Ultra-leftist wreckers will claim that such whimsical risk-taking is the sign of a "real revolutionary," but a competent cadre will give no ground to this argument and purge the offender for jeopardizing party work. During the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, the state's counterinsurgency effort involved sending agent provocateurs into protests, manufacturing violence within the demonstrations, and carrying out a media campaign to paint the protests as blanketly violent while portraying the police as genuinely sympathetic to the cause. We can't control what the media says or whether a fed suddenly invades a demonstration, but we can ban bad actors from our organizing spaces, direct people in our demonstrations to not be violent or go into traffic, and do other things that make it impossible for the media to factually discredit us. An anarchist group in my area led a crowd into traffic during 2020, and had people protest without direction, to the consequence that the police had an excuse to target freedom fighters who the anarchists had roped into their adventurism. The group then deservedly lost its influence. We must employ the mechanisms for not acting like those kinds of wrecker-type radical liberals.
These disciplinary protocols go along with the requirements my friend has recommended, which include not just those clandestine measures I mentioned, but mandatory workouts (to the best of people's varying physical abilities) and mandatory drug testing should you suspect anyone of being high on hard substances. If this sounds excessive, note that according to composite research on how wreckers operate, infiltrators frequently try to manipulate party members by impairing their judgement through sharing recreational narcotics. If someone starts offering you hard drugs, that eliminates virtually all doubt that they're a fed.
By implementing these measures, a cadre can preemptively defend against the attacks from the state. The feds seek to weaken our organizations by driving wedges between organizers using made up rumors; by ruining the reputations of our organizations through infiltrating them and having the wreckers commit outrageous acts; and by gathering intelligence on us through having the wreckers gain our trust. The state has created entire honeypot organizations disguised as actual Marxist groups for intelligence-gathering alone. For example, see Jonestown's People's Temple. To avoid trusting the wrong people, we need to stay vigilant. We need to look into the backgrounds and associations of the people we encounter, and make sure they're not like the "Marxist" Jim Jones with his childhood CIA mentor and his Latin American anti-communist speaking tours.
To beat this counterinsurgency, we need to not treat our task like a game. We need to be constantly on watch, consistent in our principles, and prepared to defend ourselves through physical means if necessary. This requires a tight model of organizing, one that doesn't let in just anybody and that doesn't tolerate breaches of discipline. I'm a diagnosed autistic, so reading people's intentions doesn't come naturally to me. But I'm still capable of memorizing the red flags for movement wreckers that others have compiled, and confronting or ceasing contact with those who show that they're not willing to stop displaying these red flags. Being autistic can even help me better retain and analyze this information. Learn the state's playbook, and the manipulations it presents you with can be overcome. These manipulations can be summarized as attempts to get you to engage in or condone violent actions that endanger the organization; attempts to get you to turn against fellow movement members despite the wrecker's case against them lacking substance or factual basis; and otherwise persuading you to act against what scientific socialism calls for you to do.
The Black Panther Party was the most successful communist party in U.S. history so far, and this was because it built a substantial relationship with the masses. The Panthers provided armed defense for their communities, as well as material aid and programs for protecting mothers against abuse at schools. They had the mass backing necessary to bring a party to victory, but they were still destroyed, because the state managed to infiltrate them to a fatal degree. It's impossible to immediately discern whether every person you meet is a wrecker, but it is possible to pick up on the signs when they present themselves. And to keep yourself or someone else out of any leadership position, or even out of the organization itself, if you're vulnerable to manipulation or notice this vulnerability in another person.
If one is unable to get out of a toxic relationship, for instance, they can be manipulated by a wrecker perhaps even more easily than by their friend or romantic partner. And if one has a neurological condition that impairs their social radar, like I do, one needs to thoroughly learn about the red flags, and consult others on whether they should trust the suspicious person in question. During my early experiences in organizing, there were times when I was totally clueless to red flags that were immediately obvious to the others in my cadre. I've failed to identify in-person 4Chan trolls and con artists posing as gangsters, and chaos has repeatedly befallen my cadre as a consequence. It's taken experience, and a change in my character where I've eliminated the liberalism within myself, to become less vulnerable to those who try to deceive me.
These are the things we need to think about when facing an insurgency that's not just violent, but insidious. COINTELPRO never ended, it only got better at concealing its activities. It sends individuals our way who are hard to identify as friend or foe, and who naive people will inevitably give the benefit of the doubt. Educate that naivete out of your mind, and you'll be able to properly navigate the environment you're in. What we're facing is a state that already treats the class struggle like a literal war. And that therefore has a sophisticated network of spies to inform on organizations, spread strategic disinformation designed to sow division and discredit organizers, and provide the state with opportunities to assassinate or frame those organizers if they're deemed enough of a threat.
When our revolutionary crisis intensifies, this counterinsurgency will become vastly more violent. The Jakarta Method will be brought to where we are. By that point, we'll better have already gained the wisdom to continue our work underground, and to weed out spies. Because we'll no longer be in a situation with enough leeway for us to be able to party with wreckers, take their drugs, entertain their manipulative ideas, and act like this doesn't have an impact on our work. We'll no longer be able to separate our Marxism from our liberalism. Still clinging to your liberalism by that point will ensure your prompt demise at the hands of the state.
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