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The screenshot showing FBI infiltration concerns from decades ago feels relevant to how leftist organizations get targeted, but calling Haymarket Books government agents without actual evidence is the kind of purity testing that weakens movements. They publish way too many anti-system authors for the glowie narrative to hold up. What specific evidence makes you think they're compromised?
the one I highlighted in the body of the post ๐คฆ
Anyone stupid enough to celebrate the kidnapping of any anti imperialist leader or ignore that people are being carpet bombed and focusing on the propaganda narrative is at least a disgusting fool, and if they're supposedly leftists who are exposed to our arguments and analysis and they still double down on US propaganda why wouldn't we be distrustful of them?
Yes. It is a test of the veracity of their positions, and they have been found severely lacking in a way that compromises their ability to accomplish or support anything meaningful. If I'm trying to formulate a chemical, you can be certain I'm going to test the purity of my ingredients.
No. These disagreements must be hammered out, a proper line must be taken, these questions of differing opinion must be definitively answered. This is the resolution of contradictions: something that strengthens movements. If the vague, amorphous "left" took power in America tomorrow, it would be paralyzed by indecision about it's basic goals because these disagreements weren't worked out beforehand. If we're gonna have an effective movement, these disputes need to be settled. Someone is gonna have to be right, and someone is gonna have to be wrong.