What Libertarians Must Understand About Leftist Strategy as well as Tactics


The real insightful in addition to e'er welcome commenter at Catalonian Secession to Create the First Feminist Socialist State?:
This political party ain't all bad: they experience authorities debt is "illegitimate" in addition to authorities should hold upwardly focused at the smaller levels. Plus, they are a grand total of 10/135 inwards Catalonia parliament. 
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot must hold upwardly considered here.

First, on an private point, whatsoever government
can hold upwardly flora to hold upwardly on the correct side of to a greater extent than or less policy. It is the totality of policy that must hold upwardly considered.  Not just 1 policy inwards isolation.

But minute in addition to real important, a minor grouping should never hold upwardly dismissed because they are only small.Their tactics must hold upwardly analyzed in addition to how they usage alliances. The Left is oft particular inwards price of tactics in addition to alliances that advance a drive that the full general public, if they saw the total picture, would reject.

Murray Rothbard inwards his unpublished paper, Toward a Strategy for Libertarian Change, writes:
Lenin saw that every ideological motility necessarily begins every bit a congeries of small, local discussion circles, inwards which each fellow member is an undifferentiated amateur, in addition to whose actions are "spontaneous" in addition to unplanned, engaged without idea to fundamental strategy. But at a certainly betoken inwards the growth of a movement, a coherent national organization, an arrangement run past times a cadre of professional, becomes necessary.
I urge readers to re-read the master post.This is just what has occurred with the secessionist Catalonian feminist group,  the Candidatura d’Unitat Popular:
The CUP has seen a meteoric rising to ability over the final decade, from grass-roots activism to securing 10 Catalan Parliament seats inwards 2015. It vows to construct a “socialist, feminist in addition to ecologically sustainable Catalan republic.” 
From there, it is well-nigh developing what Rothbard called the "pyramid of ideology":
[T]he actual status at whatsoever given fourth dimension is akin to a pyramid, with the cadre at the move past times of the ideological pyramid every bit the consistent in addition to uncompromising ideologists, in addition to hence with others at lower rungs inwards possession of varying degrees of approximation to "the truth."...this implies that the stages volition assume a pyramid form, with a smaller number of people at each higher stage.

The major chore of the cadre, hence is to endeavour to larn every bit many people every bit high upwardly the pyramid every bit possible. From this task, at that spot follows the importance of ideological coalitions, of working with allies on diverse ideological issues...

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 coalition---of what Marxists-Leinists call a "united front" strategy--- accomplishes several things. In the outset place, it maximizes the influence of the numerically minor cadre on of import social issues, in addition to does hence past times allying oneself with people who grip on that item issue, albeit on few others...

While using coalitions with numerically larger allies on concrete issues [there is] a double strategy; namely to recruit to a greater extent than people, if non for the move past times cadre...at to the lowest degree a few rungs up...

Normally, the proper tactic volition hold upwardly to start with the concerns of the people beingness worked on, to present that yous are with them on this item issue, in addition to hence to 'widen...their consciousness." 
The feminist CUP separatists are executing this ideological pyramid strategy brilliantly.

From the master post:
Though polls released prior to the plebiscite suggested alone xl per centum of Catalans supported independence, the CUP, despite its perceived extremism, has managed to shore upwardly unprecedented back upwardly over the years, largely due to Spain’s refusal to negotiate price for greater Catalan autonomy. Working amongst other secessionist parties, the CUP's habit of discussing Castilian “colonialism” in addition to abuse using the linguistic communication of sex violence in addition to patriarchal hegemony has likewise gone mainstream. Sunday’s events are probable to brand to a greater extent than people adopt the rhetoric....
The hairy-legged ones should non hold upwardly dismissed because their cadre is small. The cadre e'er is small. They must hold upwardly feared because they seem to hold upwardly bright tacticians who empathise how to construct in addition to takeover a larger movement---for key planning purposes.

Do non intend for a infinitesimal that if the battle for secession has been won they possess got non likewise idea out the Leninist strategy for gaining ability over the masses later the battle.

  -RW
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