“Every CIA funded social movement which evidently is a result of Western destabilisation & interference is actually just the ordinary people desiring to become a vassal for the US-led imperialism and the Western media never lies. Everyone who’s anti-imperialist is a Putinist authoritarian commie redfash tankie. Long live the US-led imperialism and rules-based international order! 🏦 📈 🇺🇸 🫡 🦅 🚀 🎆”
– Western “leftists” & “anarchists”
Capital is great at co-opting genuine social movements. It doesn’t mean the grievances are not valid or that protesters are all compradors, it’s just one of the way imperialist domination works.
But it does mean movements have to be explicitly anti-capitalist, antifascist and anti imperialist to have a chance at resisting being co-opted.
From Kronstadt to 21st century color revolutions, once you start taking Western capitalist money, accepting “support” from NED-adjacent orgs, or tolerating fascists because “they’re fighting our common enemy”, you lost control of the movement and it became the tool for CIA and the like.