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Trust me I fully understand. Between my content, work, Red Rifle Collective, and the think tank - I have no free time, and honestly I am happy since political work is my love. I hope you can in the future, we’d love the extra hands with this project.
I fully agree and I’d love your involvement with the work we’re doing in this. I don’t know if you saw the Redline Media invite link at the bottom of the piece but that is where we’re working from temporarily until we move to self-hosted servers. We need as many people involved in this project as much as possible.
I use both. I use Linux, element, and signal for my computer, communications and planning with the comrades, and the popular social media’s specifically for propaganda and reaching out to comrades to bring into the organizations our group is building.
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Which can only really happen with a primary space sharing tips and tactics to do so without as much or any censorship. That’s why I made Redline Media Institute. And for the rest of the Left who doesn’t make content, that’s what spaces like this one and the others is for. A place to speak freely and plan and then know how to carry ourselves on the corporate sites as we spread influence.
Facts, this was exactly what I did after I studied theory and got self-activated to organize with the organizations I belonged to.
I never said not to use popular social medias, but to use them specifically for the purpose of spreading ideology. The sites like this one where we aren’t censored or as censored need to be spaces of planning, discussion and getting propaganda. Then we should go to popular socials specifically to spread these beliefs and propaganda into communities outside our own echo chambers.
“You need to see every corner of the internet as a city to influence and people to bring towards the movement as best as possible. That’s our biggest weak point in the Left in terms of influence, the lack of mass mobilization and spread of influence.”
I have been saying this for a while and it’s why I made Redline Media Institute. I’m not going to just wait for the Left to come around, I’m going to help build.
We need a wide range of different propaganda for different purposes. Our group has guides on social media strategy, psychological warfare, and memetic warfare.
We have and need more propaganda centered on left-wing communities - defending AES, talking about Marxist economics and philosophy, theory, etc.
We need propaganda for the progressives to move them left - micro-dosing ideology, challenging liberal notions, etc.
We need propaganda to influence normies to the left, usually a combination of the previous two but in smaller micro-doses and said as a passing piece in content that isn’t even political.
Like I said “What makes a pipeline a pipeline is the many entry points into it that leads to specific political communities.” We need to pull in people from anywhere.
Thank you! If you can, share it around.
Thank you for the list of people, some I follow, some new ones I need to follow.
I’m sorry but that’s just wrong. I’ve been writing on Substack for 2 years now and the majority of that site is left-leaning or left-wing people. Content creators and regular readers. Just my newsletter has gone from 400 to 1,580 in a year.
Even if it was, and the case for Rumble, I do not agree with this notion that because it is dominant with the right that it can’t be used if its a low-censorship site with no specific political devotion. You’re just arguing to leave spaces online untouched by our infiltration and means to radicalize people away from reactionary backwardness, which is basically a spit in the face to what Mao said. We did that before irl and it’s one of the biggest reasons the influence/power vacuum in rural communities openned up and was quickly influenced by far-right efforts to divide political beliefs between the cities (left) and rural communities (right) - that tactic is so well known its mentioned by the far-right in their own propaganda.
And I gave my Rumble as an example, I’ve got blatant left-wing content on there, I just don’t post video stuff consistently and don’t have the tech yet to do streaming (despite I plan to). https://rumble.com/c/c-2318824
Rumble has such a low censorship that I uploaded blatant Hamas propaganda to test the waters and it’s still up: https://rumble.com/v4ltle2-our-beloved-ones-by-shadi-al-bourini-palestine-resistance.html
Like I said at the bottom of the article: “We need entry points, propaganda spreaders, into every space across the internet. Nothing should be out of our reach.”
Never said anything about them being lesser, that’s you making that assumption or trying to put words in my mouth. Humans are humans and they’re all complex, but there is people who have a higher ability to pattern recognition, analysis, and critical thought, and those with less. It doesn’t mean they’re lesser, it just means they need a different way of approach. The issue with the Left as a majority is not understanding this and changing approach when need be, or making information consumable for people with different understandings. Too much intellectual heavy jargon, text heavy distribution, etc. The art of micro-dosing ideology and information to people is only recently (2020) starting to become a thing.
1: You guys care far too much about the semantics. Human society doesn’t advance off constantly fighting for exact estimates, it operates of 70-80% of knowledge and execution. When a study is covering something as difficult to cover as the inner workings of the mind, it’s not always going to have exact estimates of things, it’s going to have the closest ratio it can get. I’ve studied psychology, it’s a difficult science. Even if it was half, that is still a serious number to consider as it means half the people you’ll ever deal with will not have the means to understand something as others do.
2: Everyone operates off their upbringing. This is psychology & sociology 101. One’s actions are usually a byproduct of something that happened within their environment. Inner monologue just means a higher ability to internally analyze past decisions or beliefs. That’s why it’s far more common with neurodivergent people than it is with neurotypicals. A lack of a inner monologue means a lack of an inner tribunal, and for those without one, it means you have to convince them to your side either off appealing to emotional thought, material conditions, or other methods. When we talk about inner monologue, it means in a neuroscience lens, as a higher ability to analyze past other means of thought.
That’s very apparent since this same message was shared on Reddit, my Substack & my own Telegram channel and didn’t get remotely the push back it is getting here. It’s obvious that with lemmygrad becoming a new hub for the Left to speak more openly, there is folks coming into it that aim to water down or derail any form of thought or organizing that matters. It is what it is, ultimately this post was to shout facts to a void for at least a few to sympathize and begin focusing on fixing the many issues within the Left through our own individual contributions to mass organizing. It is to shout what I’ve seen and been fighting against or for, for well over a decade. It’s also why most of my own work in organizing is devoted to the clear lacking areas the Left has, such as our lack of militancy which is being addressed by our organization Red Rifle Collective, and our lack of a propaganda wing, which is being dealt with by the building of a Socialist think tank.
The problem the Left has is it’s propaganda is far too decentralized. Most of our propaganda comes from various organizations, all with different positions, and most not aimed at reaching regular people but promoting beliefs and concepts that will only ever be shared by various left-wing echo-chambers. Outside of that, a large chunk of “propaganda” is made by various influencers who are separate from other influencers, promoting content that sometimes does break past the echo-chambers, but not enough to be as impactful as it needs to be. One of the things I am working on is bridging that gap with a think tank specifically devoted to centralizing influencers together, further increasing strategy and collaboration, and making propaganda not just stuff that only leftists will understand but micro-dosing ideology for people outside our circles.
I’m not treating a forum as a vanguard party, this is simply a means for me to speak to the wide void that is the internet space, specifically the Left who needs to get things together.
Consciousness is shaped by material conditions, but if you don’t actively try to educate and lead the masses out of reactionary influences they’re going to go towards reaction. This is the reason why the vanguard (the advanced segment of the proletariat) and propaganda simultaneously need to be a central focus, because if you don’t lead from among the masses or influence from among the masses then you aren’t going to go anywhere. The idea that the proletariat will just inevitably come to our side without the tireless efforts of the socialists & communists and their propaganda is not just historically incorrect, it’s Utopian idealism. The masses have agency, but all of psychology and sociology proves they’re still entirely subject to their environment, as beliefs are a byproduct of ones environment or influences within. Their potential can only be channeled via the efforts of the group who helps them channel it.
I’m not denying the importance of the mass line, I often refer back to it, but what is greatly missing from the quotes you shared is the deeper analysis of Leninist thought which urges on the necessity of the advanced segment of the proletariat. The one quote specific: “However active the leading group may be, its activity will amount to fruitless effort by a handful of people unless combined with the activity of the masses.” Coupled with Leninist and Juche understanding stresses the importance of the “vanguard” (not as an organization but as the studied and organized sect of the communists) must be intertwined within the working class communities in order to understand their situations, level of understanding, and further advance them along with fight alongside them. It’s good to have a lot of book knowledge, but book knowledge without active participation in working class communities or organizing from those communities is useless. That’s the importance of that quote specifically and the importance with the quote from Kim Il sung “Intellectualize the proletariat, proletarianize the intellectuals” which is something even Marx eluded to.
“If we tried to go on the offensive when the masses are not yet awakened, that would be adventurism. If we insisted on leading the masses to do anything against their will, we would certainly fail.” I am aware of this and that’s not at all my post was eluding to. That said, it also means it is suicidal to not centralize our groups into a coalition and begin building a propaganda arm along with an armed wing for the Left that influences and is tied to the workers relations.
I did in my reply to them.
There is scientific studied to what I said which I replied with to the original commentator.
Literally backed by psychology and science. There has been studies on this topic. Many operate off what they was raised on or told to believe. “About 30–50% of people regularly engage in internal monologue. Others rely on visual, emotional, or kinesthetic modes of thought”
This wasn’t in regards to one specific organization, the idea that one organization must be the primary and the others should cease or merge into it is impossible in the American or Western relation. Its that of the Left the majority do not organize and where they do its in separated small groups. If we are to exist in small organizations then the most important next step is building a mass coalition with all the others and organizing as one organism like the Gaza groups do.
Agreed