Brown shirts are only going to be effective in cities, which is exactly where the greatest population of resistance fighters will be.
That assumes there are organized and armed groups to even become resistance fighters. The US, and most of the world, doesn’t have the same growing, disciplined Communist organizing like it did pre- and even post-WW2. I don’t think there would be any meaningful armed resistance in US cities that could outlast even their own militarized police, much less a concerted effort that included neo-Nazi paramilitaries.
Even mass protests in US cities include mostly liberals. Due to lack of organizing or pacifist/unarmed ideals, they will either surely die or just join the Right. It might not go down that path, but if it does and if you’re betting on a spontaneous resistance movement then you might just seal your fate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Fucking_Around_Coalition does exist. Black Panthers organized resistance, though they suffered exactly as you describe. I think that a brownshirt movement will force the creation of armed resistance movements. We’ve already seen how the existence of the white nationalist movements have created the conditions for anarchist and black movements for self-defense.
but if it does and if you’re betting on a spontaneous resistance movement then you might just seal your fate.
I think you’re right that most protest movements are liberal. I also think there’s a huge amount of resistance in the black and indigenous communities. They were all broken by COINTELPRO in the 60s/70s. I think there’s a possibility that there is movement to revitalize. It’s a race though.
That’s cool, I hadn’t heard of that group before! Thanks for sharing!
I hope you’re right, obviously, but I’m more pessimistic about the state of an organized Left to take on a fascist movement that controls the State. It’s not just about having a group or two either. It’s logistics about being coordinated, supplied, and disciplined. I have no idea but I doubt these groups are at that level. I think the race was lost a long time ago, movements of the 60’s and 70’s are long-since dead and the willingness of those groups hasn’t been seen in the US since. I think there will be some pushback but it won’t last.
And, besides local movements, if the West goes full fascist then there isn’t sadly another USSR power that will be able to defeat the fascist threat on a global level. At best we’d have some countries that will either be waiting to be inevitably invaded or militarily resisting invasion. But I admit I’m pessimistic about it, we just don’t have the same conditions as we did in WW2 because the West so successfully broke or isolated the growing Communist movements at home and abroad.
My initial point, however, is that the US doesn’t have the industry required to go full fascist. Remember that Italy and Germany went fascist first by industrializing to the point that they were outproducing all expectations and it took multiple countries to counter them. The US is nowhere near that and has no hope of getting there.
Facts! It isn’t just anarchists and black movements either. Communists, socialists, and socdems (so basically most flavors of anti-capitalism) are arming-up or at least learning how to shoot or breakdown a weapon to make inert (Socialist Rifle Association/John Brown Gun Clubs/Redneck Revolt). Also seeing more pro-2A orgs/groups for various minorities (two examples being Latino Rifle Association and Pink Pistols) getting more members. Now is the best time to support and/or join whichever ones that are active in the areas that folks are.
It is also a smart idea to get at least one or more guns and learn to use them. Also in the event that the libs somehow start banning things again, as the fascists and conservative bootlickers most certainly have plenty on their side already. Not about to let them have an easy time if any of them start pulling anything thinking the left is defenseless (as they still think real leftists are the same as the centrist libs). Even then, there are more liberals also starting to get guns too.
That assumes there are organized and armed groups to even become resistance fighters. The US, and most of the world, doesn’t have the same growing, disciplined Communist organizing like it did pre- and even post-WW2. I don’t think there would be any meaningful armed resistance in US cities that could outlast even their own militarized police, much less a concerted effort that included neo-Nazi paramilitaries.
Even mass protests in US cities include mostly liberals. Due to lack of organizing or pacifist/unarmed ideals, they will either surely die or just join the Right. It might not go down that path, but if it does and if you’re betting on a spontaneous resistance movement then you might just seal your fate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Fucking_Around_Coalition does exist. Black Panthers organized resistance, though they suffered exactly as you describe. I think that a brownshirt movement will force the creation of armed resistance movements. We’ve already seen how the existence of the white nationalist movements have created the conditions for anarchist and black movements for self-defense.
I think you’re right that most protest movements are liberal. I also think there’s a huge amount of resistance in the black and indigenous communities. They were all broken by COINTELPRO in the 60s/70s. I think there’s a possibility that there is movement to revitalize. It’s a race though.
That’s cool, I hadn’t heard of that group before! Thanks for sharing!
I hope you’re right, obviously, but I’m more pessimistic about the state of an organized Left to take on a fascist movement that controls the State. It’s not just about having a group or two either. It’s logistics about being coordinated, supplied, and disciplined. I have no idea but I doubt these groups are at that level. I think the race was lost a long time ago, movements of the 60’s and 70’s are long-since dead and the willingness of those groups hasn’t been seen in the US since. I think there will be some pushback but it won’t last.
And, besides local movements, if the West goes full fascist then there isn’t sadly another USSR power that will be able to defeat the fascist threat on a global level. At best we’d have some countries that will either be waiting to be inevitably invaded or militarily resisting invasion. But I admit I’m pessimistic about it, we just don’t have the same conditions as we did in WW2 because the West so successfully broke or isolated the growing Communist movements at home and abroad.
My initial point, however, is that the US doesn’t have the industry required to go full fascist. Remember that Italy and Germany went fascist first by industrializing to the point that they were outproducing all expectations and it took multiple countries to counter them. The US is nowhere near that and has no hope of getting there.
That is true and a good point!
Facts! It isn’t just anarchists and black movements either. Communists, socialists, and socdems (so basically most flavors of anti-capitalism) are arming-up or at least learning how to shoot or breakdown a weapon to make inert (Socialist Rifle Association/John Brown Gun Clubs/Redneck Revolt). Also seeing more pro-2A orgs/groups for various minorities (two examples being Latino Rifle Association and Pink Pistols) getting more members. Now is the best time to support and/or join whichever ones that are active in the areas that folks are.
It is also a smart idea to get at least one or more guns and learn to use them. Also in the event that the libs somehow start banning things again, as the fascists and conservative bootlickers most certainly have plenty on their side already. Not about to let them have an easy time if any of them start pulling anything thinking the left is defenseless (as they still think real leftists are the same as the centrist libs). Even then, there are more liberals also starting to get guns too.