Redneck Revolt

[pecksniff]

Organization website. Wikipedia article. Gun-toting leftists -- their motto is "Putting the RED back in redneck." Worth a look -- because if we ever do have a Second Civil War, they'll be players. And I don't fancy any RW militia's chances against them.

 

[CornusKousa]

Yea the RW just has thousands of times the people, many with far more combat experience than the commies.

 

[pecksniff]

Yea the RW just has thousands of times the people, many with far more combat experience than the commies.

Well . . .

Redneck Revolt is a national network.[12] Local groups use both the Redneck Revolt and John Brown Gun Club names.[7] There is no official count of the number of chapters,[26] but as of December 2017 the group had around 45 such local chapters across more than 30 U.S. states.[24] The group's membership grew during the 2016 presidential election[8] and following the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.[26] In 2018, local groups in Shelby, North Carolina, Portland, Oregon, and Asheville and Boone, North Carolina, disaffiliated from the national network.[7]

The group focuses on anti-racist organizing among white poor and working-class people,[1][14][17] although members are not exclusively white.[1] For instance, around 30 percent are people of color.[23] In May 2018, a member said that at least one third of the group's membership were women, people of color or non-binary people.[11] Administrative and communications activities are divided equally along lines of gender.[22] Speaking to Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, one of Redneck Revolt's co-founders said the group's membership includes veterans, former Republicans and former members of the 3 Percenters.[23]

Redneck Revolt is active in spaces in which white supremacist groups also often recruit, including country music concerts, flea markets, gun shows, NASCAR events, rodeos and state fairs.[8][17][24][9][22] Chapters provide firearms and first aid training,[27] food and clothing programs[17] and community gardens[15][17][27] and host needle exchanges,[17] potlucks[15] and educational events.[27] Activities around racial justice and transgender rights are predominantly oriented toward rural white people, while firearms training events are oriented toward women and people of color.[22] In a September 2017 interview, a member said that the group was exploring ways to respond to health care challenges and food shortages.[4] Some of the group's activities are modeled after the Survival Programs pursued by the Black Panther Party and the Young Patriots Organization in the 1960s.[7]

 

[pecksniff]

Core principles of Redneck Revolt[18][19]

We stand against white supremacy
We believe in true liberty for all people
We stand for organized defense of our communities
We are working class and poor people
We are an aboveground militant formation
We stand against the nation-state and its forces which protect the bosses and the rich (police and military)
We stand against capitalism
We stand against the wars of the rich
We stand against patriarchy
We believe in the right of militant resistance
We believe in the need for revolution

 

[Philthy_Phil]

I used to play army as a kid too.

 

[CornusKousa]

Core principles of Redneck Revolt[18][19]

We stand against white supremacy
We believe in true liberty for all people
We stand for organized defense of our communities
We are working class and poor people
We are an aboveground militant formation
We stand against the nation-state and its forces which protect the bosses and the rich (police and military)
We stand against capitalism
We stand against the wars of the rich
We stand against patriarchy
We believe in the right of militant resistance
We believe in the need for revolution

Well those are in conflict with one another.

But they are rednecks, not like you can expect them to have any sort of understanding that true liberty for all people leads to wild inequity of life outcomes.

You can have equity or liberty, you can't have both.

 

[pecksniff]

You can have equity or liberty, you can't have both.

Then let's have equity, if the choice comes down to that.

But I don't think we really need to choose. You are not "free" if your survival depends on what jobs corporations are willing to offer you.

 

[pecksniff]

What RR means by "true liberty" is explained here:

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, sexual 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.

As for "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 very first arrivals of European settlers in what is now called the United States, the propertied classes established a serving class to maintain their power, and systematically murdered the native folks of this land for resisting their claim to ownership. We have nothing to gain by maintaining an allegiance to an economic system that has destroyed much of the natural world, committed countless acts of genocide, and ravaged our communities and natural resources in the name of profit. Our interests will never align with the interests of the rich. Redneck Revolt recognizes that we will always have more in common with other working people of all races and backgrounds than we could have with any rich person regardless of whether they share our same color of skin.

There's a picture of a smirking Martin Shkreli next to that entry.

 

[CornusKousa]

What RR means by "true liberty" is explained here:



As for "capitalism":



There's a picture of a smirking Martin Shkreli next to that entry.

Ahh they mean liberty from personal responsibility.

Generic leftism with an "up is down, peace is war" concept of liberty.

 

[CornusKousa]

Then let's have equity, if the choice comes down to that.

I choose liberty.

Because I'm not anti-American.

But I don't think we really need to choose. You are not "free" if your survival depends on what jobs corporations are willing to offer you.

What absolutely myopic nonsense.

Just because you can't find a better hustle or get some of your own doesn't make you oppressed.

 

[rae121452]

Core principles of Redneck Revolt[18][19]

We stand against white supremacy
We believe in true liberty for all people
We stand for organized defense of our communities
We are working class and poor people
We are an aboveground militant formation
We stand against the nation-state and its forces which protect the bosses and the rich (police and military)
We stand against capitalism
We stand against the wars of the rich
We stand against patriarchy
We believe in the right of militant resistance
We believe in the need for revolution

okay...what's the catch?

 

[pecksniff]

okay...what's the catch?

You have to march with rednecks.

 

[rae121452]

You have to march with rednecks.

so what? i was born into a redneck family, i went to school with rednecks and my sisters all married rednecks. and none of them espoused these beliefs. are we equating red with communist? that's a bit retro.



AND...i love the idea of gun-toting leftists. arm the black population while you're at it and maybe things will change. why i supported the black panther party.

 

[CornusKousa]

so what? i was born into a redneck family, i went to school with rednecks and my sisters all married rednecks. and none of them espoused these beliefs. are we equating red with communist? that's a bit retro.



AND...i love the idea of gun-toting leftists. arm the black population while you're at it and maybe things will change. why i supported the black panther party.

The black population is armed.....it's not 1740 anymore (D)ipshit.

 

[pecksniff]

FORREST GUMP: Ah am terribly sorry Ah threw a fight in the middle of your Black Panther Party.