Thread by @rechelon

I've always been with the camp that believes "the value of campus organizing is supporting work OFF campus." By eg redirecting college funds towards poor activist speakers.

But I did a lot of work to radicalize fellow students and feel like some tactics had very clear results...

The most wildly successful single radicalization project I ever did in college was break into the dorms the night before first-years arrived and slide anarchist zines, posters, stickers, etc under EVERY SINGLE DOOR. So they'd be the first thing kids would be greeted with.

Nearly destroyed my knees crouching down in front of hundreds of dorm room doors, but there was a torrential flood of first years into campus activist groups that year. Completely off the charts compared to prior years.

Kids arriving at college for the first time are trying to soak up a completely new social world with completely new expectations and norms. The best way to radicalize is to make anarchism hegemonic, make it appear everywhere, *saturate* the campus and social life.

This means *taking space,* completely monopolizing and covering every single arena. Everywhere that posters can go, putting large posers. Coating every single surface where it'll last in graffiti and stickers.

It also means -- and I'm a little hesitant to give away this trick, but I think tankies and fascists have a harder time with it -- generating the appearance of depth and diversity to your ranks. You want to be the entire overton window. This means fighting with yourself publicly.

Highlight every single perspective within anarchism, have them argue in public. It gives people more entry points. It makes you appear to have immense numbers. It crowds out the rest of the overton window. It also provides you personal cover ("you think *I* would put up X?").

It's great to be a sectarian, but when it comes to radicalization you have to embrace pluralism (within reason). I would put up primitivist stuff and communist stuff alongside mutualist and transhumanist. I'm no marxist but I would always table with prole . info stuff too.

The failure mode that tankies perpetually fall into is trying to jealously build their specific organization rather than a movement or milieu. So they'll one night coat the campus in uniform highly branded posters for their specific group. Comes off like cult shit, to be frank.

You want to be scrawling arguments with other anarchists in the bathroom stalls, off the cuff debating between anarchist camps among your friends on campus radio during dinner. You want to make anarchism the entire fucking discursive universe.

These days there's fash shit trying the same on campus. It goes without saying but you must be vicious. Tear that shit down the instant it goes up, scrub it. Leave no fucking iota or trace of presence for tankies and fash. And get up in their faces / push them out if they rally.

Winning hegemony over physical and discursive spaces doesn't win you the war. Your ideas still have to be good, you still have to engage and build non-toxic, diverse, collaborative community. But hegemony cracks open the door, it makes people feel safe engaging with your ideas.