With the local ML group, I saw them set up an ostensibly independent group that looked worthwhile and joined up. When (due to local culture) that group took an anarch-isht turn, they turned it into a front group and unofficially purged the anarchists through gossip and in groups.
The RCP is the RCP, I don't think I have to say more.
With SAlt, I saw them continuously make themselves the loudest voice in single issue campaigns, then divert from the original issue to campaign for their candidate or advocate their tangentially related demands. At its worst, I saw a prominent SAlt organizer use her platform to split a protest in half, after which we all got attacked by the police.
Anarchist groups have other issues. The main one I've noticed is people weaponizing "believe victims" culture to take down people they don't like. The other is that outside of labor focused groups, not a lot of folks run long campaigns, and focus on either longstanding institutions or a single night of escalation. I wish they'd be better at mezzo scale timeframes.
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With the local ML group, I saw them set up an ostensibly independent group that looked worthwhile and joined up. When (due to local culture) that group took an anarch-isht turn, they turned it into a front group and unofficially purged the anarchists through gossip and in groups.
The RCP is the RCP, I don't think I have to say more.
With SAlt, I saw them continuously make themselves the loudest voice in single issue campaigns, then divert from the original issue to campaign for their candidate or advocate their tangentially related demands. At its worst, I saw a prominent SAlt organizer use her platform to split a protest in half, after which we all got attacked by the police.
Anarchist groups have other issues. The main one I've noticed is people weaponizing "believe victims" culture to take down people they don't like. The other is that outside of labor focused groups, not a lot of folks run long campaigns, and focus on either longstanding institutions or a single night of escalation. I wish they'd be better at mezzo scale timeframes.
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