Red Flags: Before You Join That Org

A Primer on Authoritarian & Vanguard Communist Groups & What You Can Do Instead

Red Flags: Before You Join That Org
  • Published:2024
  • Added to Catalog: 2025
  • Pages: 16
  • Size: 8.5 x 5.5
  • Publisher:Anonymous
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This zine highlights the dangers posed by authoritarian communist vanguard groups. It examines how these organizations employ manipulative tactics, such as aggressive recruitment, suppression of dissent, and co-opting independent movements, ultimately replicating the oppressive dynamics they claim to oppose. By contrasting these vanguardist approaches with anti-authoritarian methods, the text emphasizes the importance of aligning means with ends. It encourages readers to cultivate critical awareness, build authentic relationships, and engage in grassroots organizing that fosters collective power without the pitfalls of authoritarianism. The zine also provides practical advice for protecting activist projects from authoritarian infiltration.

Excerpt

This zine outlines red flags to look out for, provides some history of the most well-known authoritarian communist groups’ harmful behavior, and offers a few alternatives to joining them. We believe that the most strategic way to fight systems of oppression is by fighting collectively. We don’t need to recreate the very power dynamics we’re struggling against to win. But we do need you in the fight.

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