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I disagree with this solely based on history and the patterns of Leftist revolutionary movements. Everything from the Viet Cong to Castro's Cuban revolution - and probably most relevant, the IRA during the Troubles - for the first phase of the revolution never amounted to more than a few hundred people at most. Usually no supplies. Very little if no public awareness or support.They really do have no public support whatsoever and this is illustrated by how even conservatives use the term Nazi as a slur. On their own they couldn’t topple the government let alone govern. They can’t cooperate so I doubt they could find a way to get millions of people to follow them. Especially considering the majority, even the majority of whites, hate them.
There is one scenario where I can see white supremacists playing a role in overthrowing the United States government. Basically, I could see a Napoleon or Caesar like figure using them to get rid of some of his enemies and to participate in street brawls, intimidation, etc. However, in such a scenario they’d still be major liabilities and the moment their usefulness was outweighed by their liability they’d get the SA treatment.
However, I’d like to clarify that when I refer to white supremacists being used as street fighters, I’m not referring to the alt right spergs but literal gangsters. The alt right is a bunch of middle class wankers that are not even useful as bullet sponges. They’re so useless that they’d be sidelined and likely would be the first to be shot -probably by poor whites with an adjacent worldview- in any civil war/coup/civil unrest.
Chairman Mao wrote extensively on this, and interviews with the Black Panthers and Weather Underground say that they studied the military writing of Mao and Che Guevera extensively. Even the Viet Cong during not one but 2 Indochinese wars between America and France started with low numbers, absolutely no weapons, no widespread support, and were off in the woods. Studying the Cuban Revolution is very interesting and you see just how outnumbered, outfinancied, and outgunned he was. But every revolution in the history of humanity was executed by a minority, especially the Bolsheviks. Widespread popular support is the least of your worries because it happens pretty easily once you can own your optics and narrative.
Here's the thing: violence actually gets wide swaths of the population on your side. it gets people excited, it makes you seem relevant, it makes people think "change is happening" and, politically, the promise of change is an incredible recruitment tactic even if the change you promise is not detailed at all.
That violence, by the way, is also how groups like the various European Bolshevik movements were to create a coalition of the fringe. You see it in America right now, when violent leftists can actually bring in Black Nationalists and Mexican Reconquistadors and Strasserists and whomever into the fold. The violence is the momentum that gathers steam and builds the ranks, we see it right now.
It happens time and time again, from Ireland to China to New York. The purpose of the insurrectionist is baiting a larger force with smaller actions to make them look bad by any reaction looking comparatively disproportionate. This is how they win hearts and minds.
Now obviously America is different geographically, demographically, and militarily. But the same rules apply. Here is where the Right fucks up and will continue to fail: they think winning hearts and minds is a waste of time, and anything short of Civil War Right Now is seen as a cope, a fedpost, a shill, etc. The truly Insurrectionist Right has no patience and if it's not Day of the Rope as of Tomorrow they're not interested. And when it comes to building a unified movement, you need a unified spirit. There is no unified spirit on the Right, to the point where if you float the idea you're accused of "Big Tent Nationalism" and, once again, a Fed, a Jew, a Shill, whatever.
The Dissident Right could be more popular, more effective, and more energetic than the entire Left tomorrow if they could stop bickering over esoteric theology and whether or not so-and-so with a show is actually white. Illiterate Jungle Asians managed to do it twice in a row and - this has been covered extensively by military scholars, the book War of the Flea is a good one - literally all they had was, as Mao put it, "time, space, and will."
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