I have a leftist friend who's a historian writing a paper on how the right is so successful at organizing and why the left sucks at it. Trying to help them gather sources. The more scholary the better.

She's particularly looking at right wing paramilitary organizations (proud boys, 3%s ect) And why the left has trouble forming their own.

Edit: question might have been a bit ambiguous, we all know a lot of the basic reasons for this, what I need is the type of thing that can be used for an academic research paper. Interesting discussion is still good though so have at it.

  • GundamZZ [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    There's a paper called Making Friends & Making Out about how Chile successfully organized. Maybe that'll help. It mentions how the communist party served a social function and wasn't annoying freaks saying you're not allowed to date anyone not on Tinder.

    Inb4 the obvious "what about predators though" response this post will get.

    • SickleRick [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Salgado, A. (2019). Making Friends and Making Out: The Social and Romantic Lives of Young Communists in Chile (1958–1973). The Americas, 76(2), 299–326.

      The paper is on Sci-Hub for those interested.