I mean there was that time researchers at Carnegie Mellon poisoned the network with malicious nodes

Yeah, this is exactly what I was talking about. The Carnegie Mellon people used a Javascript exploit to do what they did. To quote a random vpn website:

In 2014 the FBI – with assistance from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University – developed an exploit based on a Firefox JavaScript flaw that successfully de-anonymized some Tor users, including the operators of the popular Silk Road website. Although the vulnerability that allowed those attacks was fixed within days of its discovery, the incident nonetheless created fear among Tor users that it may not be 100% secure after all.

The reader should ponder to themselves why this user wants to make it appear we’re talking about two different incidences.

TOR has definitely never been successfully subverted.

If you have better suggestions for anonymously communicating with a violent mass audience, I’m all ears.

You are doling out really bad and dangerous advice.

And you’re doling out fear and paranoia to keep people from taking up arms, based on the idiotic idea the “American” government is omniscient (it isn’t). It goes without saying that anyone willing to organize violence against the “American” government is taking their life into their hands, and the more effective they are, the more resources said government will utilize to destroy them. The advice I have given, in fact, is probably the safest advice for any organization wanting to go about conducting warfare against “American” government by mobilizing those who can be mobilized to fight them.

What is the truth about Rwanda? I know basically nothing about that.

I recommend the books Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction by the Québécois nationalist Robin Philpot, and Rwanda 1994: The Myth of the Akazu Genocide Conspiracy and its Consequences by the British Trotskyist Barrie Collins, to begin to understand what actually happened there. The essay here is also okay, but very brief.

Tor is financed by the US government, and they have repeatedly discovered the identities of people that used it.

All those cases have been due to people misusing Tor, and being identified by Javascript. I don’t think you can even use Tor anymore outside of the Tor browser, which disables Java by default, though in the old days it was a separate application that you turned on and off.

Tor is open source software, and has been looked at by many, many people now, and any backdoor would have been found out a long time ago, and it would have been utilized by other governments around the world to catch people doing all sorts of illegal activity already.

I don’t think it is possible to creare any kind of leftist militant organisation over the internet, there need to be personal contacts.

The exact opposite is true. Trying to do this with “personal contacts” is how you’re going to be arrested before you ever do anything. Either that, or talked out of it completely, and told to do some ritualized meaningless protest activity.

This article is extremely idiotic in many ways (the imperialist narrative on Rwanda is so dear to them, the bourgeoisie would sooner change their narrative on WW2 itself than give up this lie), but it goes to show the fear in the minds of the ruling class. They don’t fear Trump or Biden (lol!) organizing for civil war, what they fear is that not enough people will pay attention to them to prevent a civil war.

Make no mistake, “America” has zero political parties. The Democratic and Republican “Parties” are not ruled by ideology, political lines, dues paying members who believe in things, etc. They really are nothing but State-institutions that exist to facilitate the ability of capitalists to fill vacancies in political offices. The bourgeoisie call the shots on both sides, and no matter what happens, the people they control will be screeching “We need to compromise! Violence is wrong!” at the top of their lungs on the news 24/7.

That isn’t to say, there aren’t millions of stupid people who don’t understand this. The head of any State is largely a symbolic figure, and Trump is bad for “America” because it makes too many people unable to identify with the regime. Likewise, millions of stupid whites actually do think the Hollywood celebrity from Queens represents them in some way, and his removal could lead quite a few of them to acts of violence. No matter what the outcome, people should expect a sharp spike in unorganized, spontaneous violence from highly politicized masses.

The difference between this and a full-fledged civil war is the difference between powerful forces in society organizing it or not. What organization, say, on the “America” “Left” exists that has the resources and ability to coordinate mass violence, much less the desire to do so? Is the DSA going to turn into Gonzaloites overnight, and start using their control of the imperialist labor apparatus to turn their union organizers into recruiters for armed conflict? Of course not! As the author of this piece hints several times, the “Left” that is under the control of the Democratic “Party” will not only not do anything like this, they will actively try to suppress violence at every opportunity.

The situation is similar on the “Right” in “America.” There doesn’t exist anything like the Organization from the Turner Diaries to be able to mobilize masses of Euro-“Americans” for combat against a newly installed Biden regime. The Republican “Party” already bends over backwards to do everything they can to stop white settler rebellion on the “Right.” As Sakai said in his fascinating essay The Shock of Recognition:

Obviously, rightist political views that touch on fascism are held by many white Americans. They’re conditionally loyal to the government (and in the government) only because their level of prosperity and privilege is so high that why should they lift their faces from the trough? But if the u.s. capitalist class left it to a “democratic” vote of its white citizens, known fascists like David Duke would be in the u.s. senate, there would be no W.T.O. but also no Civil Rights Act, and much of America would proudly fly the Confederate flag of the slavemasters. The imperialist State’s largest domestic security priority is not terrorism, the ghetto or the border as they pretend, but restraining and defusing white settler rebellion to the right.

In my years and years of dealing with the “American” “Left,” it’s quite obvious to me rebellion will first break out on the “Right.” Trump is not a cause, not even a symptom, of what is happening. Trump is bourgeois medicine poured down the throats of the stupid whites to dope them up and keep them from turning against their Christian Zionist overlords. It is the bourgeoisie trying to serve up some existential-elixir, so the stupid whites can at least fantasize they got their own Fuhrer that cares about them.

Whether or not a civil war is going to erupt is going to come down to the existence of an organization, with a desire and the resources capable of bringing it about. Most of the masses of North America will sit it out, of course, but there are tens of thousands of “Left” people who could be motivated to violence against a second term Trump regime. A revolutionary organization that made the dividing line of us/them about violence itself, rather than historical narratives about the Cultural Revolution, could unite many people for semi-organized violence.

I say semi-organized, because such an organization would first have to take a page from the Siege playbook. Once the call for individual violence is put out, the organization would need to see how many people hear the call. So if some such group did that to all the (self-proclaimed) revolutionary English-language “Left” spaces they could, they could count up the amount of incidents around the country, and get a reliable estimate of the size of their anonymous army.

From there, it would be a matter of developing the strategy and tactics, and leadership to command the people willing to fight. The most important thing at that point would be maintaining lines of communications to the people who responded to the initial revolutionary call to violence, probably via a tor node hosted in a hostile country to the US (so the server simply can’t be taken offline), and this would be the beginning of the revolutionary army, hopefully it would be able to outgrow the anonymous stage of the conflict.

There are some bourgeois sources that took the trials seriously, back when they happened. The first person that comes to mind is US ambassador Joseph E. Davies, whose book Mission to Moscow was turned into a Hollywood film that is fairly pro-Soviet. The labor politician Denis Pritt was also there, and took them seriously.

Very few bourgeois historians have actually tried to substantiate the claim that the trials were all completely phony. It really is an axiomatic thing, as poking around too much into the foundational assumptions of anti-communism only hurts them, so they simply dismiss the topic out of hand. The few that even address the topic at all simply point to Trotsky’s Dewey Commission or the Khrushchev era rehabilitations, most just expect the reader to be familiar with the (forced) school reading of Orwell’s fiction or Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon. What the anti-communists can’t prove with facts, they simply fill in with fictional narratives. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever even read a bourgeois account of the trials that didn’t explicitly reference Darkness at Noon, usually right at the beginning!

One of the things I’ve always found though, is that anti-communists always play on people’s inability to understand that communists, and the Bolsheviks in particular, were violent revolutionaries, who essentially waged a decades long conspiratorial struggle against social-democrats, culminating in the overthrow of the social-democratic Kerensky regime itself. This aspect of Bolshevism most people simply do not understand, and hence it becomes confusing to people why communists would conspire against each other in the first place. This gap in understanding is then filled in with the cartoon caricature of Stalin as mad evil despot, and the rest writes itself. In reality, the knowledge that communists (at least the successful ones) are violent people that devote their lives to conspiring against governments, and that have developed an entire analysis on why their Left opponents are a bunch of agents of capitalism, opponents that most people can’t easily distinguish between them and the communists, should give one a ready-made understanding of why communists would conspire to overthrow one of their own.

Instead, we’re treated with the odd appearance of the bourgeois lionization of certain communists. Mad-devil paranoid Stalin killing innocent honest communist saint Buhkarin, says the bourgeoisie! Even their own literature on the topic shows they have never moved beyond “Left” wing resentment that their faction lost, which is the ultimate origin of all this nonsense.

There isn’t going to be a communist revolution in any advanced capitalist country anytime soon, so it doesn’t really matter that a bunch of anarchist children haven’t yet dropped their edgy ideological fashion accessories for mainstream liberalism yet. You’re better off attempting to steer them into an analysis of the imperialist labor bureaucracy, and then the serious ones will immediately understand why Marxism-Leninism attracted millions and anarchism attracts stupid white kids.