‘Beautiful Trouble’: A Guidebook On Leftist Activism

Popular Leftist Resources: The ‘Beautiful Trouble’ Toolbox

Believe it or not, today I am sharing a leftist activism website.

No, I have not become a leftist (praise God). But I have been infiltrating some leftist channels lately to get more of an insider perspective of how the leftwing became so nutty. I hope to have a write-up on some information from my insidious activities soon. But for now, this will have to hold everyone over.

There is one website that comes up all the time on every leftist channel I have engaged with. For the informed dissident, this particular website is one you should also get acquainted with:

• BeautifulTrouble

It may seem confusing at first, but what they are doing is pretty obvious once you see it.

In practice, what they do is coordinate leftist social movements and provide strategies on how to be successful with them.

Beautiful Trouble is a brain-dump and strategy powerhouse for worldwide leftism.

If you read their “values”, it is clear about what they are all about:

Collective Liberation

We — wait, what do you mean we? — are the 99%!

We strive to bring about a world liberated from unjust systems such as capitalism and classism; racism, white supremacy, Zionism, and colonialism; patriarchy, sexism, and heterosexism; ableism, ageism, sizeism, and other forms of oppression.

The Beautiful: From our forthcoming book Beautiful Solutions to amplifying tactics like Prefigurative Politics to supporting small direct actions around the world with our Get Up Rise Up Fund, we seek strategies to simultaneously dismantle the forces that hold us back, while constructing new ways of being in the world together.

Wherever people are rising up to defend their fundamental rights we offer our solidarity, support, and tools.

At the same time, we remain vigilant to the corrosive effects of the NGO-ization of resistance, and so-called “democracy promotion,” as well as direct efforts by governments or corporations to usurp social movements. 

These guys created a 500-page book on revolutionary strategies that leftists are using all around the world today.

Think of this website like a more modern version of Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules For Radicals‘. You’ll see dissidents talking about Alinsky’s book all the time, but no leftist I know of even bothers with it anymore. All of them are using Beautiful Trouble and have been for a long time.

Hell, half of the leftists I have engaged with have never even read Alinsky/Marx/etc., but almost all of them know of Beautiful Trouble. Us dissidents really need to catch up with the time. We’re fighting an enemy that hasn’t actually existed for three decades.

The way to defeat your enemy is to know them. They literally put all of their strategies online, so we really should have no excuses.

To be more specific in my recommendation to check out this website, I encourage you to spend some time in their “toolbox”. This is where their ground activism is recorded.

The toolbox has six categories:

• Stories
• Tactics
• Principles
• Theories
• Methodologies
• Sets.

Each detail exactly what you would expect.

If you are short on time, I encourage a look into “tactics” and “principles” first. Those two combined are a complete leftist manual on how they operate and strategize.

The “theories” and “methodology” are great if you want to get into the mind of a leftist. Or to understand their more long-term approaches to perceived problems.

The “stories” are useful for understanding what they consider success—Which radically differs from what a right-winger would argue.

Finally, the “sets” are combinations of the other five compiled about a specific event. For instance, the Black Lives Matter set is of particular interest, since Beautiful Toolbox was used heavily during the BLM riots of years past.

We can hate on the leftists all we want, but they consistently outdo right-wingers on actual activism and strategies. Along with disseminating such information and overtaking key institutions.

We need a dozen of these websites for our own side, but I can’t seem to find a single one. If anyone has a knack for making this kind of content, the need is there. Get to work on it.

But until then, we can at least modify the leftist’s own strategies for our own purposes since they make them public. And we can use the knowledge of how the leftists operate against them.

Learn the enemy to overcome the enemy.

Consider this an open invitation to enter the enemy’s toolbox playground. Use it however you will.

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