Edit: due to privacy concerns over Google Docs, I have made a Cryptpad account. You can read the article there. I’ve also made a Cryptpad folder with all my antifascist articles (more to come).
Fascists take the recruitment online, and it’s important for antifascists to understand how the fight moves on.
We hope that through this exposé, you’ll learn new things about detecting dogwhistles and signs, and how insidious fascists can be when recruiting people.
This exposé has been in the works for a long time and there was never really the right time to publish it. I’m happy to finally be able to present it publicly. Thanks for reading.
I’d be interested in a similar discussion of /r/CleanLivingKings which appears to be the same basic premise, but not yet banned.
I looked at it and I would have to dig deeper to grasp the full extent of this place, but it’s certainly a place for traditionalists (not sure about full fascism yet). They claim to build themselves up, but really their advice is nothing special and what you’d find in a self-help book. It reminds me of Jordan Peterson a lot, and his advice about cleaning your room lol. One stern-looking man succeeded in a month where parents failed for years.
Their lifestyle boils down to:
But it’s very shallow in practice. Do what sports? Read what books? A person asking for advice on his thighs hurting when he started working out was told to power through it. This is dangerous advice that anyone could have given. It’s also highly individualistic advice, and that’s why I compared it to self-help books: it’s trying to fight alienation under capitalism with more liberalism.
It’s a sub full of people giving ill-informed advice and receiving the same ill-informed advice in return. How many of them practice what they preach? Reactionaries are paper tigers, and I would venture to say at least 50% of their most ardent followers are posing as kings without doing anything.
It doesn’t hold a candle to places like swoletariat or theory-focused marxist communities.
So I’ve been thinking about CLK since you brought them up and I made a write.as account. I’m going to be reposting some of my articles there, and then it’s my next project!
Edit: it’s actually going to be on my cryptpad account (see OP edit). Will post here!