He is in fact q the perfect example of both a politician and a businessman. That’s why he belongs in prison.

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To justify my take in the other comment, I’d suggest reading their strategic documents, which are really quite good and clearly bear hallmarks of productive lessons learned from the vanguardist model:

https://www.blackrosefed.org/about/program/4-general-strategy/

Unlike mass organizations, which are generally open to all those who share certain needs, anarchist political organizations are composed of an “active minority” of revolutionaries who share a common ideology, set of principles, and program. Political organizations demand a higher degree of theoretical and practical unity from their members and play a distinct role in the course of struggle. [emphasis mine]

Theoretical unity: Anarchist political organizations are made up of militants who share general agreement on core theoretical questions regarding the nature of the system of domination, what kind of society we want to put in its place, and the most effective means for getting us from here to there. This does not imply a rigid form of political uniformity. There will always be debate. But the organization is dedicated to striving toward unity and translating that unity into collective action.

Strategic and tactical unity: Based on a collective analysis of current conditions, the activity of the anarchist political organization is guided by a common set of tactics and strategy, expressed in a program. While the program provides a clear direction for the organization, it is understood to be a living document, updated as conditions change.

https://www.blackrosefed.org/about/program/6-limited-term-strategy/

Develop and expand a militant minority of anarchists committed to organizing at a rank-and-file level within strategic industries. One of the missing ingredients in the ongoing effort to revive the labor movement is the militant minority, that segment of the working class with the experience, dedication, and vision that has helped fuel previous periods of large-scale labor unrest. In the US, the militant minority has always been politically diverse, including the broad range of the radical left, from anarchists to Trotskysts and beyond. But the influence of one or another political current in the labor movement is often tied to their level of political organization, as in the case of the Communist Party in the 1930s. Anarchists and syndicalists have played a significant role as part of the broad militant minority in the US since the late nineteenth century, particularly through the IWW. But our lack of political organization has limited our ability to exert a greater influence. The recent growth of the DSA will likely lead to a more reformist militant minority within the labor movement. In this context, BRRN must facilitate the development of an anarchist militant minority.

Their model is rooted in Latin American anarchist movements that don’t have the imperialist, anti-democratic, and individualist tendencies of your average imperial core anarchists. Of course they still say to " act as a bulwark within social movements against, among other forces, the following: authoritarian revolutionaries, who may seek to seize leadership positions for their own ends, convert struggles into recruitment funnels for their own political organizations or into front groups that they direct behind the scenes", but whatever, I’m not expecting anarchists to not be anarchists.

My branch runs a telegram channel for that purpose, but I dunno if the Twin Cities folks do. I’ll talk to my comrades there and suggest it.

The defining feature of Black Rose is that they are basically vanguardist anarchists. I don’t know if that’s a term they’d self-apply, but I think it’s accurate.

Black Rose is the leading example of what serious anarchists are capable of in the US. None of the anti-organizational nonsense, neither adventurist nor just a mutual aid group. Big respect to them.

You’d be shocked at how many punks are just former theater kids

He’s a pretty standard western radlib “socialist”. Saying “capitalism bad” doesn’t mean much at this point if you don’t also say “anti-imperialist states good”.

Mutual aid sometimes, especially in response to a crisis like natural disasters. It’s not a core tactic, though. I don’t think that’s really the role of a revolutionary vanguard party. Labor organizing, yes. Both starting new union drives and entering into existing unions to strength, expand, and radicalize them.

Love the fiction section about China being an imperialist power with designs on Greenland.

feeling like a vanguard party rn. Leading the organizing in MN for a general strike. In my city we just organized walkouts at 18 different high schools, with hundreds of students at some.

I like wintry winters

Tiktok is old enough at this point that it’s due to cycle out and be replaced with a new social media app anyways.

I support what they’re calling for. But I never understand the value of boycotting an election unless you think it will prove you don’t have a big enough base for the demands you’re making.

sick

A France scenario is the best path to the success of European socialism. And it hinges on the success of the left in France, I i think.

Are things just gonna go back to normal? These are all the same players as before.

looking forward to when a single Chinese municipality starts outproducing the entire US

Pittsburgh outproduced Germany during WWII so it’s not that crazy