Stormfront is just newsletter tactics 2.0 which were already shown not to work in the 90s and earlier. That tactic has a local maxima to it. Same as the marxists/bolsheviks recognizing the ceiling of effectiveness on squadism (where they form up a squad to use direct action) without first having political cover by completing the march through the institutions.
I suspect what the new strategy should be is exactly what the left persued with intersectionalism: evangelism, in person.
Hold the diversity of course.
The internet is too impersonal and infinitely divideable/subvertable and censorable. "truth to power" to a telescreen is essentially "trust the plan" on a long enough timeline, because knowing something is, on a small scale, insufficient.
Many people knowing something personally, face to face, across a nation, creates an entirely different sort of environment that can be 'energized'.
The reason people do anything reliably on a regular basis, that doesn't involve money, is rarely ideological. No, the thing that makes people most apt to being reliable and useful to a cause is their shared bonds and connections to others who hold the same beliefs.
So 1. bond-building (fraternity), and 2. belief building (ideology) are the twin engines of successful grassroots organization.
Which is the exact thing we don't have right now. Which is the exact thing we need.
notbillgates 1 points 3.9 years ago
Stormfront is just newsletter tactics 2.0 which were already shown not to work in the 90s and earlier.
That tactic has a local maxima to it. Same as the marxists/bolsheviks recognizing the ceiling of effectiveness on squadism (where they form up a squad to use direct action) without first having political cover by completing the march through the institutions.
I suspect what the new strategy should be is exactly what the left persued with intersectionalism: evangelism, in person.
Hold the diversity of course.
The internet is too impersonal and infinitely divideable/subvertable and censorable. "truth to power" to a telescreen is essentially "trust the plan" on a long enough timeline, because knowing something is, on a small scale, insufficient.
Many people knowing something personally, face to face, across a nation, creates an entirely different sort of environment that can be 'energized'.
The reason people do anything reliably on a regular basis, that doesn't involve money, is rarely ideological.
No, the thing that makes people most apt to being reliable and useful to a cause is their shared bonds and connections to others who hold the same beliefs.
So 1. bond-building (fraternity), and 2. belief building (ideology) are the twin engines of successful grassroots organization.
Which is the exact thing we don't have right now. Which is the exact thing we need.
Because without it, nothing can be done.