While i dont have a definitive answer, i will say one of the reasons that left wing political movements nowadays (Occupy wall st, BLM, the environmental movement) dont have the same pronounced leaders that the left wing movements of the 1960′s did, is due to the targeted arrest, harassment and assassination of those leaders by authorties.
Was that actually the plan or just a post facto explanation? My prior would be that this happened because of the organizing mechanisms of the day (internet vs in-person meeting of the past).
Even with the organizing technology, there are no outspoken people who have decided to act as leaders of these movements. No martin luther kings, Malcom Xs, or huey newtons, or fred hamptons. My suggestion is no one wants to be those guys because they all got assassinated. thus these movements sadly remain unorganized and leaderless.
It seems more likely to me that modern technology has made it harder for someone to become a leader even if there are people who have decided to act as such. It does not seem likely to me that there are no outspoken people who want to be leaders or that they are, in general, afraid of assassination.
Take the realm of elected political leaders. By the very nature of this realm there is just one person of focus for each campaign and I’m not under the impression that there are a dwindling number of campaigns for political office...a position that has been under threat of assassination over history.
Anybody who’s very outspoken doesn’t survive in today’s highly political correct enviroment of the left.
If you take a person like Sarah Wagenknecht who’s outspoken and an leader on the left she enough thought that was independent from left wing orthodoxy to not ally effectively.
While i dont have a definitive answer, i will say one of the reasons that left wing political movements nowadays (Occupy wall st, BLM, the environmental movement) dont have the same pronounced leaders that the left wing movements of the 1960′s did, is due to the targeted arrest, harassment and assassination of those leaders by authorties.
Was that actually the plan or just a post facto explanation? My prior would be that this happened because of the organizing mechanisms of the day (internet vs in-person meeting of the past).
Even with the organizing technology, there are no outspoken people who have decided to act as leaders of these movements. No martin luther kings, Malcom Xs, or huey newtons, or fred hamptons. My suggestion is no one wants to be those guys because they all got assassinated. thus these movements sadly remain unorganized and leaderless.
It seems more likely to me that modern technology has made it harder for someone to become a leader even if there are people who have decided to act as such. It does not seem likely to me that there are no outspoken people who want to be leaders or that they are, in general, afraid of assassination.
Take the realm of elected political leaders. By the very nature of this realm there is just one person of focus for each campaign and I’m not under the impression that there are a dwindling number of campaigns for political office...a position that has been under threat of assassination over history.
Anybody who’s very outspoken doesn’t survive in today’s highly political correct enviroment of the left.
If you take a person like Sarah Wagenknecht who’s outspoken and an leader on the left she enough thought that was independent from left wing orthodoxy to not ally effectively.