Redneck Revolt: Communist Rednecks

[Tactical Nuke]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/11/redneck-revolt-guns-anti-racism-fascism-far-left

https://news.vice.com/story/this-armed-group-is-trying-to-be-the-new-face-of-left-wing-activism

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/antifa-movement-anti-Annoying Orange-politics-national socialist/

https://www.redneckrevolt.org/

WE STAND AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY
The white working class has a rich history of rebellion against tyranny and oppression. The white working class also has a long history of being the foot soldiers of genocide and oppression. In the periods before widespread adoption of white supremacist ideals, the white working class openly rebelled and found common cause alongside slaves, natives, and other people being attacked and exploited. In the wake of such bonds and cross-race unity amongst the lower classes, the rich created a series of laws to favor white workers and servants at the expense of workers and servants of color. The relative privileges that white people have been afforded since that time have kept us protecting the rich while also allowing our communities to remain impoverished and unstable. The white working class will only see real political, economic, and social stability once we abolish our allegiance to white supremacy. We have a duty and an obligation as freedom loving people to stand against the reactionary ideologies of white supremacy and white nationalism that menace communities of color and keep control over white communities.

WE BELIEVE IN TRUE LIBERTY FOR ALL PEOPLE
Private property rights are not the basis of liberty. This false idea has put us in the position we are in. Liberty is based in the rights of all people to not be oppressed, exploited, attacked, or marginalized based off their race, gender, loveual orientation, religious practices, country of origin, or physical or mental abilities. The concept of liberty also affects our relationship to each other and to bosses and others who would exploit us of our labor. Our liberty is deeply rooted in the ability to not be coerced into making poverty wages while someone else amasses wealth on our backs and labor. Our communities, and not parasitic rich people, are entitled to all the wealth that we as workers produce.

WE STAND FOR ORGANIZED DEFENSE OF OUR COMMUNITIES
The concept of community is central to our goals and intentions, because it separates us from those who work only in defense of their immediate family, property, and possessions. We find that many movements upholding the concept of liberty do so only in an individualist mindset, which undermines the idea that liberty is something that all people are entitled to.
We are convinced that the concept of liberty can not truly exist on an individual level alone, and that any class, race, or state construct that enslaves and oppresses anyone among us is a threat to the liberty of all of us. With that in mind, we use the term "community" intentionally to describe those who share the same material conditions with us; our neighbors, our family members, our friends, the people working alongside us. Most of us are only one bad emergency away from disaster; a sustained layoff, medical emergency, or death in the family could take away everything we've worked for. In those situations, the people we turn to for support often have as little as us, but understand better than anyone how tenuous and important our support network is. That is our community.

WE ARE WORKING CLASS AND POOR PEOPLE
Those of us who have the luxury of being able to have a job, sell our labor everyday to make ends meet. For many, we live paycheck to paycheck, our lives filled with precarity and a lack of stability. Most of us are one catastrophe away from losing our homes or means of survival. Still others of us are not able to work or find work. We have been called “white trash” by middle class and upper class people, especially other white folks. We are not professional activists. We are not academics with a text book understanding of poverty or being a worker. We have been cast aside by other more polite white people who view us as nothing but embarrassments. And even while we have been marginalized and then exploited for our labor and treated as expendable garbage, we have been manipulated to be the ones who are the buffer between the rich white elite at the top and poor marginalized folks on the bottom. We refuse to be that buffer class any longer.

WE ARE AN ABOVEGROUND MILITANT FORMATION
We strongly believe in community defense, the basis of which must be meaningful involvement in our own communities, material support for other liberatory defense groups and survival programs, and an acceptance of the risk we take on when we commit to defending each other. Defense means more than just confrontation. Our relationships with our neighbors are strengthened by breaking bread together, knowing each other's families and struggles, and becoming accountable to one another. Most importantly, we are willing to take on personal risk to defend those in our community who live under the risk of reactionary violence because of their skin color, gender identity, loveuality, religion, or birth country. For us, that means that we meet our neighbors face-to-face, and stand alongside them to face threats whenever possible. We understand this means that we may also become targets ourselves and become known to their enemies, but we act always with the understanding that those who oppose liberty for all people are already our enemies. Power is built collectively through intentional relationships and networks with each other. The best security measures enable us to act militantly and from a position of strength, rather than preventing us from taking meaningful action.

WE STAND AGAINST THE NATION-STATE AND ITS FORCES WHICH PROTECT THE BOSSES AND THE RICH
Police, prisons, courts, artificial borders, and other systems of social control only exist to serve the rich. The nation-state project came into existence to protect the propertied classes and keep us working people poor and without power. We do not seek to merely replace one set of politicians for another. We know that our answers come from a community level, where every person should be allowed to participate in making the decisions that affect their lives. We believe in community power and community rights over the rights of any government body. We stand with working class people of every country of the world against our common enemy: the rich, and will not allow arbitrary borders or boundaries to prevent us from unifying with other working class people.

WE STAND AGAINST CAPITALISM
Capitalism is an economic system that methodically keeps the vast majority of people in the world impoverished while they labor to enrich a small minority of people. Since the inception of the United States, the propertied classes have always exploited the poor and working class to maintain their power and enrich themselves at our expense. We have nothing to gain by maintaining an allegiance to an economic system that has served to destroy the world and threaten all life as it continues to ravage our communities and natural resources in the name of profit. Our interests will never align with the interests of the rich. We will always have more in common with other working people of all races and backgrounds, than any rich person regardless of whether they share our same color of skin.

WE STAND AGAINST THE WARS OF THE RICH
Working class people become the fodder for wars that do nothing to protect us or keep us free, and instead only enrich the lives of politicians and rich people. We are funneled from under funded schools based in cities and towns where most job opportunities no longer exist, and pushed into the uniforms of the Armed Forces. We have been deployed to countries all over the world, and sent home in body bags, or as shells of our former selves, just to watch those who sent us to fight and die live in increased luxury. For generations, we have served those in power dutifully, only to see every promise and commitment made to us revoked. Our support of wars that only destroy the lives of working class people from all sides, had kept us poor and powerless. It is now time to turn our guns on our real enemies.

WE BELIEVE IN THE RIGHT OF MILITANT RESISTANCE
We are not pacifists. We believe in using any and all means at our disposal that do not violate our basic humanity, to gain our freedom and true liberty. We believe in the right of every community to defend itself from those who would exploit or oppress them. We believe in the empowerment of all individuals who wish to participate in the defense of their communities with the knowledge and equipment to do so. It is our duty and obligation to defend our families and communities by all means from those who would profit from our misery and destruction.

WE BELIEVE IN THE NEED FOR REVOLUTION
We believe in the complete restructuring of society to provide for the survival and liberty of all people. We believe in the end of predatory exploitation of our communities and the creation of a world where no one is without food, shelter, water, or any other means of survival. We believe in a future without tyranny and the political and social control of a small segment of society over the rest of us. We believe in liberty. We believe in equity. We believe in self determination.

so basically Antifa with guns

hoo jesus

/discuss

[Ad Bot]

[Nicepoint]

Left cannot learn

[Snaked_Snake]

I do agree that for some people making money and living comfortably on minimum wage can be hard, but is attacking people and lethal force really the answer? Jesus.

[PhantOS]

i see nothing wrong with this. it's just people with their own opinion who are using their 2nd amendment rights to organize and defend. as long as they dont kill anybody they're ok

[(or nal?)]

i see nothing wrong with this. it's just people with their own opinion who are using their 2nd amendment rights to organize and defend

guess who will also use their second amendment rights when they wreak havoc in Berkley.

[PhantOS]

guess who will also use their second amendment rights when they wreak havoc in Berkley.

hopefully anybody in berkeley that feels the need to defend themselves

[(or nal?)]

hopefully anybody in berkeley that feels the need to defend themselves

and the National socialist movement probably

[PhantOS]

and the National socialist movement probably

and they have every right to

[Insert Name Here²]

I do agree that for some people making money and living comfortably on minimum wage can be hard, but is attacking people and lethal force really the answer? Jesus.

[hootaloo]

read the article for once you forgeters
i know its big but god damn if youre going to make a topic about it

“At Redneck Revolt, we tend not to cover our faces anyway,” said Sidney. “We want to make inroads with the community, and it’s easier if they knew who you are.”

“I’m very impressed with Redneck Revolt,” said Hy Thurman, one of the early founders of the Young Patriots. “I think they’re right on with what they’re trying to do.”

“We use gun culture as a way to relate to people,” said Neely, whose grandfather was an avid hunter. “No liberal elitism. Our basic message is: guns are fine, but racism is not.”

Many members are white, but the organization seeks to build on a “redneck” identity beyond race.

“I grew up playing in the woods, floating coolers of beer down a river, shooting off fireworks, just generally raising hell, all that kind of stuff,” said Neely. “Things most people would consider a part of redneck culture. We’re trying to acknowledge the ways we’ve made mistakes and bought into white supremacy and capitalism, but also give ourselves an environment in which it’s OK to celebrate redneck culture.”

When Neely and other white members of Redneck Revolt claim allyship with movements like Black Lives Matter, they are compelled to acknowledge their whiteness – in particular, their ability to carry weapons with impunity.

“They are our security,” said Katherine Lugaro, an organizer with This Stops Today, Harrisburg’s local iteration of Black Lives Matter. “They’re a wall between us and anyone hateful. They put themselves on the line.”

In Harrisburg, night fell. Max Neely and his band of companions eventually regrouped at a local bar. They drank beers and talked about hockey. After a while, they gathered in a private side room to debrief.

They sat around an ashtray and chain-smoked cigarettes and carefully took turns recalling the events of the day. Late in the evening, Keystone Progress had led a protest march down the street near the cookout, though after police refused to let them pass through a blocked area the march fizzled.

antifa with guns, huh op?

theyre open carrying in a legal state. theyre not even masked lmao, they just have it out. are you the next tony or something OP?

[Køtt]

this shames me as a tennessee boy

[Karl Marx]

Imagine being this scared of organized leftists.

[Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph]

Imagine being this scared of organized leftists.

what do you expect from someone who stuffs himself if you say teen titans go isnt terrible

[Decepticon]

as long as they dont kill anybody they're ok

[Deus Ex]

Imagine being this scared of organized leftists.

It's almost like organized leftists have been increasingly violent over the past few months, hmmm