This place is an endless goldmine of retardation, I wish I would have found you morons sooner.
Making Money For your Leftist Organization
Parker Cox
Anthony Cruz
It also fits right into our consumerist society. It's like Starbucks, rent our housing and 10% goes to revolutionary action that you're too lazy to do yourself.
Parker Rivera
the Bolsheviks and the IRA did it
probably not feasible anymore though, what with modern cameras and all that
Brandon Flores
Why would this be 'not well loved'/hypocrisy? How can you be a Marxist and have such a moralistic approach to capitalism/socialism? Have you not learned shit?
Anthony White
Zizek kind of talks about that
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Also to answer OP's question, you do whats absolutely necessary to achieve your goals in the most pragmatic matter possible. The realpolitk of it is that any capitalists and competing political movements that can engage in activity that will benefit them or hurt their opposition while remaining clandestine will do so and anyone that doesn't is an outlier and/or falling behind. The person playing dirty behind the scenes who never gets found out always trumps the person playing fair who ends up denounced, defamed, or at worst dead.
Jeremiah Rivera
Zizek was indeed my reference for that post.
Nicholas Carter
Easier to trace. A business owner who doesn't go to the meetings, rallies, or combat training sessions is not going to be as easy to connect to militant communism as someone who does do all those things. Moreover, someone who already has an existing business or profession (professionals are basically petty booj) will probably be better at it than a bunch of communists trying to set up fronts, and will not be diverting/splitting the attentions and efforts of cadres.
Zachary Thompson
Selling drugs doesn't work for communists because it is a propaganda failure.
Chase Jenkins
I would create a communist crypto currency.
Benjamin Anderson
I agree on this. The FARC sold drugs and received adequate profit from it, but shot themselves in the foot by having to ally with groups which the working class found unsavory or at some points a risk and becoming entrapped in the business of it. They also ended up capitulating to the government and other entities regardless of those actions all while having to continue to deal with the after effects of their actions. Contrast that to the ELN who at the time of FARC operations never dealt in the drug trade and were better popularity wise for it while retaining their "agency". Unfortunately that's coming to an end however, as ELN forces have to deal now with fending for themselves and are now getting stuck in the same position the FARC were in.