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This Is a Communist Rebellion
I write articles on war. I have spent the last ten years studying revolution and rebellion cause I find it interesting and it pays. So imagine my surprise this weekend, when I saw a straight-up Communist Rebellion break out on the streets of the USA.
People in the media, on Ricochet, and my friends on Facebook just think this more of the same that we have seen in recent years. No, that was Stage 1. We are at the beginning of Stage 2. What Stages am I talking about?
First, let’s talk a little about Che Guevera. After the Cuban Revolution, he realized three things.
- Popular Forces can win against a regular army if properly led.
- The Revolution does not have to wait for favorable social and political conditions, the insurrection itself can create these conditions.
- The Countryside is the main battleground in underdeveloped Latin America.
All these Antifa guys wearing Che shirts; does it occur to anyone that they might be reading his books as well?
The US is not Latin America. The countryside is not the main battleground, it’s the cities.
Now we get to the three stages.
Stage 1. A defensive stage, where revolutionary cadres establish themselves in sanctuaries (universities) and begin popular resistance. I have no doubt there are hundreds of safe houses littered across American cities, not all of them known, where stockpiles of pre-positioned materials are set.
Stage 2. An equilibrium stage, where the guerrillas move amongst the people, increase their strength, and destroy government support and morale. This is where we are now.
Stage 3. A popular offensive stage, where the guerillas, acting as the vanguard, will lead the entire people in overthrowing the government and consolidating their power.
This is organized action by Antifa, an honest-to-goodness Communist front who has been preparing for something like this for years now. Berkeley, Oakland, Portland. Those were practice runs. They were testing police response in preparation for a large series of planned riots.
The Wuhan Flu has prepared the stage for this action in a way that Antifa could never dream. Tens of millions of people unemployed and cooped up for months. The perfect ingredients to encourage large scale rioting. I have no doubt that they dusted off operational plans and the leadership cadre set things in motion probably a few weeks into the virus.
Antifa is following the work of men such as Carlos Marighela, Douglas Bravo, and Abraham Guillen. They are Latin American revolutionaries from the 1960s and 1970s who took Che’s ideas and applied them to the then-new modern city environments.
It is in American cities where large groups of discontented people can be found. Workers, students, and the unemployed. Right now there are tens of millions for Antifa to go with.
They consider this a political-military struggle.
There are now Antifa cells that serve as revolutionary cadres.
They are out in the streets pre-planning and staging material for the riots at this very moment. Those pallets of bricks and water scattered about.
The actions they are to take will include assassination, kidnapping, sabotage, attacks on police stations (already happening), propaganda, and agitation through all media. They are currently working through some organizations for protest demonstrations, strikes (hard to do with everything shut down), civil disobedience, and what Antifa excels at, rioting.
All of these things are planned to have political effects. They are trying to undermine the faith in government by proving how inadequate and incompetent they are (lucky for them most of the places they are doing this to are run by Democrats). Urban guerilla warfare is designed to increase social disintegration.
They are trying to force the government to overreact and then crackdown, so they can get more recruits, more supporters, and more money.
That’s the goal of the riots. Antifa does not think this will work out in undermining the government; they think they can use this to recruit more people to their side. This is the start of a years-long struggle, one that has been going on since the Obama administration. They are the Vanguard for a true revolution that will strike down capitalism and lead to their new world vision for the USA.
I have no doubt their leadership cadre has been trained and is actively getting support from Russia and China. It’s not Twitter farms stirring up trouble. What do you think those Chinese Cultural Centres on University Campuses are just there to steal your secrets? They have been used to target people who would be interested in being Marxist guerillas, and many of them have flown to China on “cultural visits” where they have been given training in tradecraft and information operations in preparation for the rebellion.
I am not saying that the Chinese ordered this into active operation. That some sort of “Climb Mount Nitaka” order was given. But the idea that they and Russia are not training and supplying Antifa seems ridiculous.
So, this is the big one. I can’t believe it’s actually happening. That someone would actually try it in the continental US. But it’s happening and people need to be aware.
Certainly law enforcement seems to be getting the message. I don’t expect Antifa to succeed. I expect this to be crushed in a few months’ time. But we need to start changing the narrative because it’s the wrong one. Antifa is trying for a Communist Revolution in the streets of America.
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@torywarwriter,
Thanks for a good article.
There are things that surprise me about this offensive. How did the communists react so quickly and so effectively? The operation shows signs of very good planning, funding, staffing, and command and control. And yet, they had no way knowing that this specific police-involved death of a criminal perp would happen on this particular day, and with such good cinematic production values.
Not only that, but there doesn’t seem to exist today any unified, disciplined revolutionary organization. The communists seem to be fragmented and undisciplined, with lots of stupid purely voluptuary college kids, and fentanyl addicts with long rap sheets like George Floyd being predominant. They are not good revolutionary soldiers; they are mostly just snowflakes who only want sex and drugs and plea-bargains, and someone to protect them from having to get jobs while paying for their comfortable lifestyles.
I’d be interested to know your explanation of this puzzle.
I check occasionally on my far-left liberal acquaintances on facebook and they are bouncing around the conviction between each other, that the violence has been orchestrated by far right groups to make it look like the nice peaceful leftists are the guilty ones. I wonder if that also isn’t part of the overall strategy behind the scenes, or just a by-product of how they have been trained to think?
Speaking of mail in ballots:
PA installed special drop off boxes all over our county. I’ve been wondering if Those boxes have armed guards? What’s to stop anyone from dropping flames into one?
WordPress just shut down Western Rifle Shooters Association over unspecified TOS violations. The Gab feed is still there.
https://gab.com/WRSA
Protection was never about stopping others from destroying your place. It was to keep the person getting protection to not destroy it.
Thank you for this.
This, along with the point I was trying to make above about how so much of the broader reaction is illogical (and there is no attempt by the reporting class to even make it seem logical), continues to exercise my mind. To the thinking person, so much of the coverage comes across as a skipping record (how about that for dating myself?) where every other sentence stops halfway through and the “narrative” that must seem so obvious to the mindless news reader never comes across. The frustration finally sent me to the bookshelf to pick up my copy of The Rape of the Mind – The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (1956). I have often turned to Chapter 11 (Mental Contagion and Mass Delusion) to deal with modern political issues but on this one I am drawn more to the entirety of Part Two (The Techniques of Mass Submission). I have some reading to do…but I will tease with this:
The issue is never the issue. The revolution is the issue.
Sometimes the people getting the protection money delegate the destruction.
–Your welcome
–Its just hard to believe like this could happen here, so know one outside Law Enforcement is having this talk. The media is so caught up in its own traditional fights on both sides, to really ask the question.
–To me as a historian its obvious, but how many historians have a good forum where they can say whats happening, and then have an audience thats willing to listen. Not many.
–They were prepping for an incident and had a plan ready for when the balloon went up. They didnt know about this incident, but something was bound to happen, because America, and stuff always happens. So they just were going to wait for the first time left wing people started protesting over anything, and then they decided this was one they would put there plan into motion.
–Antifa is not fragmented and disorganized. They give off a ‘seems to be’ vibe. But they have been moving pretty well unseen in many places. Because Democrats want to give them protection. And use them as props for there own ends. I bet it never occurred to them that Antifa actually means what it says, and would have the will to carry it out.
–Back in the 70s mail boxes were a real popular target for pipe bombs by the Weather Underground and the FLQ.
Oh, like other kinds of terrorists and mobs, they use you, then pop you once your assigned purpose is fulfilled.
It’s a plot theme and characters right out of every action movie and thriller, because that is part of humanity’s habit.
People are so dumb.
My impression is that it’s a pretty flat hieararchy, at least on the ground. And in a wierd way entrepreneurial. With the anarchist roots, there’s still an antipathy to hierarchies and central authority. Central funding, maybe not so much. I suspect the management levels get paid for results and that admission to higher initiations depends both on ideology and productivity.
Hell, they COUNTED on it.
A good article just went up on Legal Insurrection.
I’ll take the CIA for $500, Alex. #jasonbournelives
Groups like this always fish in troubled waters. So how to calm the waters?
By removing the anglers.
Oh Lordy, I wish I could tell you that you are wrong. That your past history of studying the details behind former rebellions has made you overly sensitive to what is happening now.
I wish I could tell you that after all, some 50 years ago, another generation protested, yet the brass tacks of what made America America remained in place, and that life resumed.
But I know in my churning stomach and in my bewildered mind and in my breaking heart that you are absolutely correct.
The bail laws now in place in areas like New York mean that when an individual is arrested, they are almost always released very quickly. These laws went into place right before this happened. (Just as the laws giving unparalleled power to the petty bureaucrats who are the usual county public health officers in Calif received that power back in October 2019, less than 6 months before the COVID crisis reared its ugly head.)
A gunshot hit the RNC field office in Bullhead City, AZ last week, narrowly missing several volunteers who were in the office at the time.
Interesting:
“Beijing would be justified if it openly backed the protests and riots.”
You almost have to admire the artful ambiguity in the official Chinese response to the insurrection:
There is an excellent series of comments to this post at LI.
Go to the post to read the rest.
Note the page from the Hamas/Hezbollah playbook: the aid tent in a crisis setting. Also note that the enforcer is a mechanical engineer. These are very serious people, not pajama boys living in their parents’ basement.
What would happen if they attempt to coop the ‘wrong’ people — peacefully protesting and who are sincere, not discontented and who refuse to be manipulated? They might well decide to take the bricks and turn on the instigators and beat them to a bloody pulp. The cops would only have to clean up the mess.
It seems the weakness is relying on demonstrations ostensibly for other purposes behind which they can hide. Those events don’t come up every day.
That would also work. Getting violence started is how mobs work.
I’m betting on some Soros funding too . . .
True but this effort seems very well funded. More funded than normal. Soros can do this to a city or two but not nation wide, even world wide.
Thats just now made me depressed American Hamas great. They are way more organized than even I thought. This is going to be a big problem for years to come :(
This is the work of national powers, China and Russia using Hybrid Warfare against the continental USA. They counted on the conceit that ‘it could never happen here’. Well its happening and few are noticing.