Gangster Bolshevick Principles

Inspired by Gangster Bolshevism(will post a link when I get enough posts)

Country music is trauma music, with more booze, drugs, and murder than all other pop formats combined. More rubbed-raw emotions. More take-this-job-and-shove-it worker rage, too. For all its alleged reactionary spirit, country-and-western lyrics address the indignities of working life far more than any other pop format. The folk-singing hippies who demonized working white stiffs never copped to the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.
-Jim Goad, Redneck Manifesto

Long-term goals
1. Establishment of a stable anti-capitalist regime in the American Southeast through revolutionary class struggle. Probably closer to Anarcho-Communism than outright Bolshevism, at least initially, but we are not overly concerned about semantics. When putting out a fire, one should wait until the smoke clears before worrying about redecorating.

2. Destruction of the American Federal regime: one of the most destructive, tyrannical, and oppressive to have ever existed. This will not be an easy task; the forces of capitalism and imperialism are strong and well-entrenched, especially in our area, and we suspect that this will be a conflict to last for generations.

3. Lead by example. The success of Redneck Bolshevism will bring hope to billions around the planet, thereby encouraging a global wellspring of revolutionary action and a rising up of the international proletariat.

Home and Hearth
1. Support for our people and nearby allies instead of more anamorphic concepts such as international socialism, etc. In our case that would mean the working-class people of Appalachia and the rural American South, so-called "rednecks" so long denigrated by racist and classist propaganda of the capitalists and their courtesan entertainment organs.

2. Formation of small, independent vanguards of dedicated activists to support the working class on a local level and bring about conditions favourable to our organization or those of our allies. The potential duties of these vanguards would be many and are well beyond the scope of this article; it could range from planting gardens, setting up daycares to open insurrection.

3. Support of regional efforts over global campaigns. The latter are often quite laudable, but we feel that people will work harder and more responsibly on those programmes that will have a personal effect on them and their people.

Rejection of bourgeois nationalism, identity politics, and the like.

4. Ecological awareness. Absolute opposition to e.g. fracking and mountaintop-removal. This will worsen the effects of resource depletion/peak everything, but those are inevitable and will serve to increase the strain on the capitalist system besides.

5. Family values and the establishment of strong, safe and stable households should be encouraged. Rousseau was right on this. While it may sound reactionary, we take a long view towards revolution and understand that the best way to create an insurgent is to start with the grandparents.

6. Encourage shooting and community defense, but not to the extent that some in, e.g., the Militia Movement would. We encourage our members to arm themselves with semi-automatic pistols (get something reliable, but don't splurge on some overrated hand-cannon, even a .22 will get the job done at the range you'll be using it), high-powered rifles (.308 and up, preferably scoped and/or semi-automatic, a surplus Mosin-Nagant will do), and shotguns.

Shotguns will be the mainstay of our movement if it ever comes to shooting. They're cheap, easy to use, devastating at close range and give forensic teams fits. M-1 carbines and Mini-14's are cool, but I ain't sure if they really fit into a guerrilla arsenal. Don't use an SKS if you don't have to. Don't waste your money on an AR-15; they're expensive, finicky, somewhat delicate, and spare parts will get rare if they're ever banned. If you really want one, just remember that once you have occasion to use them, you will likely see many made available for free.

Revolutionary Morals/Self-Discipline
1. Pancho Villia said that you cannot fight a revolution stoned, and we agree. We are particularly opposed to the use of alcohol and tobacco, as these substances are heavily taxed by state governments in an effort to separate our people from their already-paltry wages. Illegal drugs will also be foresworn, as drug convictions are the favoured method by which the Establishment keeps large segments of the underclass unemployed or imprisoned. Let the revolution be your high.

2. In addition to chemical abstinence, we advise our members to be very careful with whom they sleep. Apart from the inherent dangers of heartbreak, unplanned pregnancies, and venereal disease, seduction is a favoured tactic of police informers.

3. Popular entertainment and "legitimate" medication is often used by the ruling class to keep the underclass in bondage. With a fourth of our population on anti-depressents and almost all of them on Facebook, we should be very careful how we allow Soma and prolefeed to influence our lives.

4. For the most part, we admire the ethical codes of the Black Panthers and will probably adopt something very close to there's.

5. A great deal of hardship for the working class comes from unhealthy lifestyle decisions (poor diet, inadequate exercise, reckless behaviour), often subtly encouraged by the ruling regime. We must dispense of the image of pot-bellied Rednecks (word of advice: ease up on the beer and get off the couch) and effete Bolshevik (word of advice: get off the couch and pick some okra); The Redneck Bolshevik should be in top physical form.

6. The lottery is a scam where the state governments uses the system failure of their educational establishment to take advantage of those who never learned math. No Redneck Bolshevik should take part in it, except for the purpose of counter-scamming.

Society and Societal Collapse
1. Understanding the fragile nature of modern infrastructure. Redneck Bolsheviks should take a leading role in disaster recovery, community preparedness, etc.

2. Preparation for confrontation with the forces of the old civilization, or any new malignant forces that fill the vacuum. We hope that our goals can be achieved with a minimum of violence, but know from history that the ruling classes seldom go quietly.

3. The capitalist state will probably not die under its own weight, and if it does will stand a very good chance of crushing us all in its death throes. Under such a scenario, the Redneck Bolsheviks must be ready to deliver an immediate coup de grace.

4. Opposition to so-called social democrats and other "soft Maxists". This form of socialism is not a transition to communism but an impediment; a step on which we must fall down, or else o'erleap. Rejection of political correctness, egalitarianism, etc.

5. "Starve the Beast" mentality. Support low taxes, high spending, runaway inflation, massive waste, rampant corruption and misuse of funds.

6. Ambivalence towards religion. While it's true that churches are more often than not tools of capitalist propaganda, they can also become bastions of revolutionary sentiment. We tend to admire the philosophies of Will D Campbell and Ammon Hennacy, while rejecting their pacifism.

Outreach, Image, and Inspiration
1. Willingness to work with others, but cautious remembrance of those revolutionaries who found themselves crushed by more cunning and powerful "allies": anarchist Catalonia, the Ukrainian Free Territory, MONATIO, etc.

2. Fondness of Ted Kaczynski, Edward Abbey, Abbie Hoffman, Bob Avakian, Malcolm X and the like. Less interest in the likes of Bill Ayers and Noam Chomsky.

3. Willingness to work with people whom most radicals wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole: militiamen, churchgoers, bikers, skinheads, home schoolers, single mothers, cultists, radical pro-lifers, anti-tax libertarians, meth users, psychiatric inmates and racial/national separatists. And of course rednecks. We realize that these supposed reactionary demographics are in fact wayward workers who have often been led astray by capitalist oppression and the indifference of those who call themselves friends of the working class.

4. We will adapt Redneck imagery and folk culture and use it in furtherance of the class struggle. This would mean bluegrass, folk and country music (preferring the darker parts of the genre such as Old Crow and Hank Williams III over the pop-country of, say, Garth Brookes), camouflage, and the Confederate Battle Flag.

This will probably annoy many urban sophisticates among the revolutionary left. Think of it as a means of weeding fainthearts and weaklings out of the vanguards; if the mere sight a battle flag sends you into fits, what will an actual battle do?

5. As our movement gains traction, we will confound and infuriate the ruling classes. We will likely come under fire (perhaps literally) from both the Right and Left. They will accuse us of hooliganism, Nazism, Satanism, baby-eating, and all other matter of badness. And Hell, it may well be true.

The proper response to such agitprop is an extended middle finger. We will not play their little mind games nor will we waste our time in their rigged arenas running on their treadmills. As their rage against us grows, their words shall be betray them and the people shall see them for the reactionary ideologues they truly are.

Most of us have a redneck in the woodpile somewhere. One day the crackers may come home to roost. "Howdy, Amurrika. Yoo sher dew have a purty mouth."

Reasons why I should let my sister handle Internet material: was reading the Gangster Bolshevick post on Free Media Productions and named my post after that instead of Redneck Bolshevick Principles. Would be obliged if someone could fix that.

Also, why did it take me the better part of two days before I could get this posted at all? I've been having connection problems all winter (remote location, crappy router, old computer, terrible ISP), but other websites are doing fine at the moment.

I'm pretty sure that the fits come in when one realizes that this battle flag is the flag of the struggle for the right to own slaves, sugar coated by shiny states' rights and federal tyranny rhetoric.

I've no idea how this:

...would fit in with the Confederate symbolics. And the fact that this "fondness" would earn you the epithet of race traitor and a target in a racial holy war, which would make co-operation with the folks you mention a tad problematic. Unless you were to abandon this "fondness" of course.

As for the supposed support for the underclass:

How about examining the real source of these lifestyle decision? There is no hint at that here, which puts you in an awkward position of the preacher, a moralist who, very much like the ruling class stooges, degrades the working class for their poor choices.

And of course, the regionalism which doesn't even reach the level of the notion of socialism in one country, and which can only produce a debilitating life of toil where all share in actual poverty.

Those are some of the problems that first come to mind.

Then they would be true rednecks.

That's a pretty strange mix of right-wing and left-wing populism.

Started out p. neat sort of? and then took a nosedive into some exceptionally weird shit.

I don't think this sort of thing helps make things "more ripe for revolution" in the least. It just makes things more difficult for people in the day-to-day.

Nah fuck Ted K and Bob Avakian tho.

Bolded the "get the fuck outta here" groups. Certainly not working with (nazi) skinheads or white nationalists.

Down with all of that except for the battle flag. About as dumb as rural Bavarian socialists adopting the swastika.
More like weeding out the historically literate and black.

EDIT: Oh and that "anti-egalitarianism" lol.

Is this a joke?

Because no revolutionary political manifesto is complete without an allusion to rape as a form of comeuppance. :rolleyes:

And "Gangster Bolshevik Principles" are even better:

http://www.freemediaproductions.info...ik-principles/

And some quotes from their link on "Progressive Nationalism" are also priceless. Guys, did you know that "Trotsky’s view of internationalism included the literal forced intermarrying of races and he called it eugenics"?

lol @ internet nerds talking about 'guerrilla' and 'shooting it out'. Ya'll on cheap meth.

Oh my oh my oh my :lol:

I guess folks such as this would consider left communists the very incarnation of the big planetary government conspiracy.

But in a very twisted, ironic sense, this is actually correct. Do we not seek the unravelling of the fabric of existing capitalist communities? The self-abolition of the working class, anyone?

where's the anti-sexism and anti-heterosexism?

So you want to appeal to and use the imagery of extreme reactionaries?

This seems like a southern USA version of national Bolshevism.

What about post-revolution? (This part reminds of revolutionary asceticism, a characteristic in many irrelevant sects that think they're the one true armed struggle vanguard)

I concur with #FF0000 on this. Why should we ally with Nazis, White Nationalists, libertarians, etc?

That's quite a non-sense argument for the use of the Confederate flag...

I feel there's a bit of "stereotyping" going on, kinda like while proclaiming to be a "culturally liberating" (among other things) movement for working class Southerners and Appalachians it just falls back into reinforcing a stereotype of this segment of the population. Not everyone in the South, like say here in Pensacola, Fl meets this stereotype. Hell, not everyone in Appalachia meets the stereotype...Not everyone here likes the Confederate flag (much less the African-American population here).

Now my real question:

What you mean by this?

Lenin's CHEKA, Stalins purges....someone already bet you to gangster Bolshevism.

Creating unease and discomfort in a society is one of the methods of showing that the society needs to change, and that it can be changed. It took decades of agitation before the French or Russian people rose up against the monarch, and the Bolsheviks had thought that it was going to take even longer (their strategic flexibility allowed the to adapt to the changing situation better than rival parties). Said Camus:

A “proletariat of undergraduates” [Dostoievsky] then took the lead in the great movement of human emancipation and gave it its most violent aspect. Until the end of the nineteenth century these undergraduates never numbered more than a few thousand. Entirely on their own, however, and in defiance of the most integrated absolutism of the time, they aspired to liberate and provisionally did contribute to the liberation of forty million muzhiks. Almost all of them paid for this liberation by suicide, execution, prison, or madness. The entire history of Russian terrorism can be summed up in the struggle of a handful of intellectuals to abolish tyranny, against a background of a silent populace. Their debilitated victory was finally betrayed. But by their sacrifice and even by their most extreme negations they gave substance to a new standard of values, a new virtue, which even today has not ceased to oppose tyranny and to give aid to the cause of true liberation.

Would you mind working with black nationalists? I know some of the people from the Nuwaubian Nation of Moors and I gotta tell you, you sure wouldn't get bored having one of them share a foxhole with you.

(Wonder if there's any bi-racial nationalist groups. Hybrid vigor and all?)

In any event, I would hope they would start seeing things through a class prism instead of a racial one, and can't see how they would want to work with a Bolshevik organization otherwise. Something I try tell my more racist family members (the ones that still talk to me) is that not everyone who looks like us is our friends, and not everyone who doesn't is our enemy.
Or the Japanese Red Army using the kyokujitsu-ki? They were draped in Showa Period imagery and it didn't stop them from being some of the most hardcore militants of their day. ;)

Actually there's nothing wrong with the swastika as a traditional symbol of the Hindus and many other groups that used it long before the Nazis. In fact, I think the Finnish Air Force does still use it.

Ever read Soul on Ice? Eldridge Cleaver? Revolution is not a dinner party.

*googles it*
nationalbolshevism dot blogspot dot com
This?

That is... so beyond fucked up it actually makes sense. Thank you for sharing.

Not my cross to bear, as momma might say. I oppose both of course, but they ain't really my area of expertise so I leave them in the hands of others.

Well I don't expect to live to see the post-revolution so I don't suppose my opinion would matter. I'd probably stay a lifelong teetotaler, but my children will have to decide for themselves what's in their best interests.

Asceticism seems to have been the rule rather than the exception among earlier revolutionaries. In any event redneck Bolshevism would be tailored for a very specific population and region; hardly universalist.

Because they exist, because they generally oppose the system (albeit for entirely the wrong reasons). Show me another group in America who's members bulldoze local businesses or dive their planes into IRS buildings and I'll reach out to them instead.
Thus the regionalism. If redneck bolshevism ain't an ideology that would work in many places, maybe it's because there ain't many ideologies that would work here.
Egalitarianism might be the wrong word; more like the false appearance thereof. Kind of like a story my dad used to tell about a bunch of crabs in a barrel; you never have to worry about any of them crawling out because if one tried the others would work to pull him back down.

That's how things are in a lot of poorer communities. Mothers tell their children that they'll never do better, and then do their damndest to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy. They want their children to do well, but not better than they. So in trying to keep everyone equal we wind up with a meritocracy where anyone who visibly excels gets pilloried and I intend on seeing that change. Let a thousand flowers bloom.

So a false appearance of a false consciousness, and your father told you all about it? How can you even know, then, that it were truly your father who told you?! Even at your word alone, 'dude sounds like a total drag. I'd run away, if you haven't already...

...anyhow, weren't we supposed to be discussing your take on egalité? Naturally, I await it in rapt anticipation.

I call bullshit on this; your "regionalism" paradoxically wants in precisely what it claims to offer: namely, an actual region. And I judge your mother, too.

Looking forward to your elucidation of the above. Leo con gusto ustedes manifestos.

There's nothing wrong with working with folks who like Garth Brooks music. Working with people who may hate the government, but hate our liberation even more like NAZIs and right-wing militiamen is bad news though.

I have no doubt that people in rural and neglected areas will have reasons to make demands on their own behalf and want to organize themselves (as Appalachians in particular have some history of doing both as rural growers and miners and other workers) but regions can't ultimately secure their independence without support and cooperation from workers in the cities. Zapatistas, for example, had a lot of support, but can't maintain any independence unless those supportive urban workers are AT LEAST able to work to prevent the Mexican governmnet from trying to openly suppress the Zapatista movement.

that is like the funniest thing i've read all day, and i read a satire magazin today. as for the rest, im strictly against querfront tactics working with our enemys to overthrow the state wont work and is damaging beyond repair to the cause of emanzipation and liberation. besides most groups of "potential allies" hate commies workers and so on way more then the state.

The op is pretty nutty. Basically the answer to all of this, "No Fucking Way." You can't make a revolution wrapped in layers of reactionary bullshit. Just uniting disaffected angry elements in society doesn't get you much. Some kind of populist lash-up like the Tea Party or worse. In fact, this group you plan to get together would be much more amenable to fascism than socialism IMO.

i see this going far

That's a neat thing that Camus said but has no basis in the reality of the Russian Revolution, which was most definitely a mass action by a population that was anything but silent. You had workers who were well to the left of the nominally socialist parties in the Duma, challenging them to depose the provisional government. You had workers fighting for this, defending themselves, even outside of the militias, rioting in the streets over the war, abandoning the front, sabotaging their workplaces, etc.

And secondly, there are plenty of places in the world far worse off than the United States which are no closer to a socialist revolution than we are. A breakdown of the current order doesn't mean revolutionary transformation into another, and going by history, crisis and collapse more often favors the forces of reaction than it does us. Also, I think your perspective here is based on the idea that the most oppressed = most revolutionary. While it makes some kind of sense at first, it has no basis in reality. Revolutions often happen when situations are improving after crises. You see riots frequently in relatively comfortable European social democracies, while the same climate of militancy or radicalism just doesn't exist in America as it does over there, despite Americans being worse off. And, sad to say, things like slave rebellions have always been spectacularly rare things.

Things are more complicated than "more pain = more radicalism". They just don't work that way.

Not all black nationalist groups are the same. I can brush aside my political differences between myself and a group like the original Black Panthers. I can even deal with working with Nation of Islam folks, but groups like the Israelites and NBPP are simply too far gone.

"Hybrid Vigor" sounds like it might be a baller name for an anti-fascist affinity group.

With some hella shitty politics to boot. I appreciate militancy, but if their politics are fucked beyond a certain point, then it's wasted.

There is a pretty clear difference between a Nazi swastika and another culture's use of a swastika, though. They are different symbols, for starters.

I opened this thread hoping it was about the Dead Prez album Revolutionary but Gangsta and was severely disappointed.

That term generally means misogyny and homophobia. In short? Fuck that.

I accept that it might be necessary on occasion to use deadly force, if the only alternative involves guilty parties escaping scot-free.

But how do you justify rape?

Redneck Revanchism.

Seriously, this thing ought to be a joke; it's worse than some of the worst expressions of MTW I've seen.
The grass-rootsyness is all right, but I like how it warns against powerful potentially traitorous political allies then gives the OK to work with fucking neo-nazis.

As pointed out before supporting family values indicates u dont oppose sexism and heterosexism since the bougie nuclear family is a huge source of it. As someone who supposedly opposes sexism and heterosexism
you should actually oppose it with analysis, solidarity and critique.

U mentioned u aint an expert in the area of it, thats fine and i see whst u mean u dont wanna talk about something u dont know about. but ur writting a programme-ish thing here so does thst not suggest its for more than just u and should contain things that are relavant to other people besides u. Atleast u should be talking and writing this with other people who can fill in the missing parts.

Any movement that doesn't deal with sexism will, at best, pay dearly for its mistake. See: The total collapse of the BPP.
More likely, it won't even make it that far, and will be a shitty sausage party that can't organize a block, let alone a struggle.

EDIT: Nevermind. Seeya never fash motherfucker. BANNED.