An important idea i want people (including my haters on the far/alt-right and pro-white communities) to understand the implications of:

The left is bad at winning.
The right is bad at losing.

To the extent that the right's mythos relies on Power, Order, and Domination especially over undesirables, the left's mythos centers on Justice and Solidarity with the marginalized (undesireables). So conversely, the left is good at losing and the right is good at winning.

Obviously these are generalizations but they get at something. Anyone in """left""" movements has gotten used to crushing, regular defeat with small glimmers of victory. We are good at mythologizing that defeat as what the right considers a victim complex.

So when the left does win, we kinda, don't know what to do with ourselves. Our narratives have to catch up. We often aren't really planning on what to do if our schemes really Work. Graeber wrote this on it: https://crimethinc.com/2020/09/03/the-shock-of-victory-an-essay-by-david-graeber-and-a-eulogy-for-him

But the right is the opposite. Because fascism more broadly is a Power signalling ideology, as long as they look powerful, it doesn't matter what else happens, they still come out as victors with huge new recruitment pools. It's visceral and emotional Rebirth.

This is why they can get tossed across the ring in a public debate and all their new followers see them as winning as long as they're basically unrelenting. (This is part of why people do no platform and only argue in more private forums if at all.)

BUT, and this is a big but, if they attempt a show of power and it doesn't work. It's deeply undermining because that's really their only argument. How can you create Order and eliminate my enemies if you got beat up by 'sissy commie f*gs'?

So right flags of surrender like the confederate flag, the nazi flag, Rhodesia, etc. still get flown, but there's always a lingering aspect of unavoidable shame and embarassment attached to them bc they did the one thing they're not supposed to do... Lose. http://www.cablestreet.uk/ 

Meanwhile most leftist flags could be considered losing flags in some respect or another but basically no one cares. 'Yah of course we lost, but we were Righteous and that's all that matters.' So they get flown everywhere proudly.

This all has important implications for martyrs. Obviously the right has its own martyrs and Ngo can grift off a nonexistent concrete milkshake. But there's always the sense that they lost so it doesn't have the same staying power.

Like millions and millions if not a billion people know the song Bella Ciao but like could even a few thousand people name a song by like Skrewdriver or whatever?

This all creates both strategic strengths and weaknesses for both the right and left. If someone like me, multiply marginalized, reasonably beloved, antifascist, gets killed or jumped it has the opposite effect that the fash want.

Our communities (generally) mobilize, across our sectarian differences to lionize them and support all their immediate community. Their writing gets a huge spread. Communities come together to mourn and retaliate. Even mainstream media white washes the radical bits and uplifts it

Meanwhile when someone on the right gets killed or beaten by a 'sissy queer antifa' or whatever, it kind of has to be covered up or spun to some extent even if they are made into martyrs bc... it's embarassing to the Myth.

Like it's hard to organize under the banner of Power and then use Hitler's face when he shot himself cowering in a bunker as his enemies overpowered him. But like Rojava worships Öcalan who's been in jail forever.

So I guess my big point to the left is, play to your strengths but also diversify your narratives. We can be complex. We can win. And to the right, you force our hand to make us use our enemy and weakness of Power/Force but if you lose in your home territory, all the worse.

(I probably should've mentioned the perverse corners that an overly rigid of identification with underdogs can have on the left but it feels slightly tangential. I'll just leave it with an Expanse quote, "Just because they're the underdogs, doesn't always mean they're right.")