The roots of the Zig Forums / alt right craze and SJWism/"left" idpol are ultimately one in the same. By this I mean, both movements trace the beginning of their massive growth to the failure of the Occupy movement - which was probably the biggest shock to the western bourgeoisie since the late 1960's. Occupy was essentially a movement which unified separate elements of the left - from environmentalists to anti-globalists and socialists, along with ordinary working people under a single tent, with a generally consistent (albeit vague) set of economic/social demands.
Before it phased out of existence, Occupy genuinely scared the bourgeoisie shitless. The night before Occupy WS in NYC began, you had police helicopters in the air, armed police stationed throughout the city, machine armed coast guard vessels patrolling the hudson, etc.. The bourgeois state were preparing for a full-blown revolt. While this fear was ultimately delusion on their behalf, the movement - which rapidly spread throughout the world, was enough of a shock for the bourgeois state that they realized they had to prevent a similar thing from happening again. This fear reached its peak when occupy encampments took place in pretty much every city in the world, with thousands of ordinary workers - eg, construction workers, joining the evening general assemblies, and talk of a shadow government being formed in North America (Eg, An elected "People's Congress" in the United States, which very nearly came to fruition)
Back "in the day" - from the 2000's up until about 2012, the far left was the dominant counterculture. If you wanted to resist the system, you joined up with the anti-globalists, environmentalists, anarchists, etc.. All vulgar left-wing movements. Those of us who were in the movement in the 2000s even remember when Alex Jones had to pander to the left (his shift to an ultra-reactionary took place post 2013).
Immediately following Occupy, the bourgeois state needed to find a way to stop the left from unifying ever again. Occupy became too dangerously close to becoming a cohesive, organized movement. So how they achieved this was two pronged:
1): Rot out the core of the revolutionary left with divisive and ludicrous Idpol - eg, queer politics, racial politics, etc. Ultimately these people will be so detached from reality and so toxic/divisive that they pose no threat to the bourgeois state, and actively turn people away from socialism.
2). Using the IDPOL/SJW left as a boogyman, fuel the rise of a viciously anti-communist reactionary movement to act as a new stand in counter culture, again harming the left. Have agents from both sides (SJWs/Altright) coordinate to create a fake, but ultimately harmless culture war based on useless idpol, etc. Zig Forums has been one of the greatest assets in building this. When the alt right totally crumbles due to demoralization, a lot of people are going to be looking leftward for answers.
The bourgeois state has had critical success so far. That being said, both sides of the fork are quickly bending. Zig Forums and the alright have already peaked in popularity, and following the failiure of the Trump movement, are beginning to fall apart. Meaning the "left" reactionaries - SJWs, by nature of their toxic politics, are beginning to fold in as well. Resistance is building among revolutionary leftists.
The ability for the left to rebuild strongly depends on effectively countering and destroying the state built reactionary "left" ("SJW") movement. These people are our primary enemies at the current point of struggle. If that can be done, a lot of the alt-right can be rehabilitated, and integrated into the revolutionary movement with time.
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