Yes! Anti-Fascists DO Surveil Fascists!

trashgender-neurotica:

By which I mean we exist in their meeting spaces, listen in on their meetings, and track their activities. 

It’s not hard, really all anyone has to do is go to their fucking websites and join one of their discord servers or forums or whatever. Their centralized structure means that their plans are so visible they might as well be projected onto the side of a skyscraper.

Plus, their operational security stinks! They haven’t been facing off against harsh FBI suppression for the last half of a century like anarchists and socialists have, mostly because they as a movement are easy to use and manipulate and don’t pose an actual threat to the State.

Our information networks have adapted to the point where there isn’t one central point you can hear everything from. I’m pretty embedded and I definitely don’t have access to the intimate planning processes of various groups and orgs I stand in solidarity with.

Fascists are still informing and directing each other via a “hub-and-spoke” model that presents extreme vulnerabilities, namely centralization of information and leadership that can be targeted for replacement or elimination.

“Leadership is a social disorder in which the majority of participants in a group fail to take initiative or think critically about their actions. As long as we understand agency as a property of specific individuals rather than a relationship between people, we will always be dependent on leaders—and at their mercy.
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– The Problem is Leaders, To Change Everything

The result is anti-fascists having a very clear image of our enemy while fascists tend to not know basically anything about anti-fascists.

In short, anarchists and other anti-fascists are really cool and as usual we’re doing everything right. Meanwhile, fascists continue to suck at everything and will lose.