I suspect that much of the networked self-organization will be, at least on the surface, apolitical. For example, rather than being aimed at influencing the school board to cease grooming kids, it will work to provide a superior educational system outside of the control of the state. Both can take place in parallel of course, but in the long run the latter is more effective - it gradually constructs a successor state inside the hollow shell of the dying one, providing a focus for people to redirect their loyalty. It also leverages the talents and skills of a broader cross-section of the population: those interested in political activity are and always will be a small minority, while frustrated professionals at their wits' end with institutional failure are already a substantial group.
As an aside, it's one of the more interesting contradictions of the contemporary right that, on the one hand, there's a deep and organic appreciation for the necessity of natural hierarchy; while on the other, it has been from the beginning an amorphous, decentralized, leaderless, self-organizing phenomenon. Meanwhile Antifa's AnComs nominally adhere to an anarchist doctrine, but in practice are a top-down, centrally controlled astroturf organization that would not exist absent state and corporate support.
He will never rock the boat with pet theories. (If it is a nationalist movement, he won't have the usual out-there theories: libertarianism, Marxism, religious fanaticism.)
He won't take a smaller faction's side, unless that faction is the dominant one where he resides. He'll stay in your movement's mainstream.
He will ask for people's contact information, their jobs and where they live.
He won't invite you home or show his girlfriend or other friends.
He'll always have a lot of time to spend on the movement, as he is paid by the authorities, and can therefore rise in the ranks. This is something the media can then use to ridicule the movement: "The infiltrator became the regional organizer!"
He'll listen attentively to whatever you have to say, a grateful audience, as if he could be a great friend. He does this with everyone in private, including those whose opinions contradict yours.
I suspect that much of the networked self-organization will be, at least on the surface, apolitical. For example, rather than being aimed at influencing the school board to cease grooming kids, it will work to provide a superior educational system outside of the control of the state. Both can take place in parallel of course, but in the long run the latter is more effective - it gradually constructs a successor state inside the hollow shell of the dying one, providing a focus for people to redirect their loyalty. It also leverages the talents and skills of a broader cross-section of the population: those interested in political activity are and always will be a small minority, while frustrated professionals at their wits' end with institutional failure are already a substantial group.
As an aside, it's one of the more interesting contradictions of the contemporary right that, on the one hand, there's a deep and organic appreciation for the necessity of natural hierarchy; while on the other, it has been from the beginning an amorphous, decentralized, leaderless, self-organizing phenomenon. Meanwhile Antifa's AnComs nominally adhere to an anarchist doctrine, but in practice are a top-down, centrally controlled astroturf organization that would not exist absent state and corporate support.
How to recognize an infiltrator:
He will never rock the boat with pet theories. (If it is a nationalist movement, he won't have the usual out-there theories: libertarianism, Marxism, religious fanaticism.)
He won't take a smaller faction's side, unless that faction is the dominant one where he resides. He'll stay in your movement's mainstream.
He will ask for people's contact information, their jobs and where they live.
He won't invite you home or show his girlfriend or other friends.
He'll always have a lot of time to spend on the movement, as he is paid by the authorities, and can therefore rise in the ranks. This is something the media can then use to ridicule the movement: "The infiltrator became the regional organizer!"
He'll listen attentively to whatever you have to say, a grateful audience, as if he could be a great friend. He does this with everyone in private, including those whose opinions contradict yours.