Thread by @ConceptualJames

An important tactic used by wedge movements, Gramscian infiltrators (long march into the institutions to establish counter-hegemonic control), militant ideologies, and especially WOKE is an old Soviet technique called "Entryism." You'll surely recognize it once described. 🧵

Yes, it really is called "entryism," or "entrism," or "boring from within," which is highly descriptive, and it's being used all around you by militant ideological factions including the Woke (how they took our institutions), Woke Right, and Islamists.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entryism

Entryism is in some sense the art of entering an institution and insinuating yourself as a subversive, disruptor, divider, wedge, or plant in order to eventually transform the institution or group from within and bring it into service for your militant ideological ambitions.

The basic premise of the entryist program is to make entrance then purge "enemies" (the existing membership of the institution and the hegemony or culture they maintain). There are lots of ways to enter, and purges are basically all the same.

I've outlined a five-step process typical of the entrance part of entryism:
1) Demand access
2) Demand accommodation
3) Demand a seat at the table
4) Demand the table
5) Demand control over the institution
newdiscourses.com/2024/01/how-th…

Fwiw, I've also explained the general concept of "entryism" in a bite-sized podcast.
newdiscourses.com/2023/12/commun…

After the infiltrators enter into an institution (which can be a vague one, like a diffuse online community or even a "conversation" that's happening), they'll always begin to use divide, conquer, and purge techniques so they can wrest control of whatever they're attacking.

The four primary ways they do this are:
1) Sow internal discord in the target community
2) Introduce polarizing topics on polarizing terms and polarize around them
3) Use any standing they gain to bring in ideological comrades to increase power
4) Use the above to purge enemies.

Sowing internal discord is pretty easy. They get inside an institution and start talking to people, or injecting views into a conversation, usually of the sort that people recognized as being in leadership are somehow faithless, in error, unfair, etc., to generate agitation.

Introducing polarizing activity is probably the most interesting and important of these topics, but it's probably best for another thread. Generally, this will occur after some controversial event happens, and the goal is to create two hardline stances that polarize the target.

For example, you could wait until after a heated (mostly fake) debate about immigration and then introduce the idea that Ronald Reagan, who is an respected avatar of a prevailing political hegemony they want to destroy, supported immigration in bad ways.

The goal is to polarize the group around Reagan and to get at least some of the group to stand for Reagan (old guard to be destroyed) and others to turn against him (new guard who "gets it"). No nuance or complexity will be allowed. That will be made "proof" of being old guard.

The ultimate goals have very little to do with Reagan in this example. The goals are to create conditions for a purge of the existing group in favor of the radical entryists and to undermine the "hegemony" attached to Reagan's legacy, e.g., Shining City on a Hill and anti-Marxism

DEI is a perfect example of an entryist project, by the way. They come in under the guise of doing Civil Rights work to gain access, then manipulate the internal environment to fracture around identity politics construed on Woke (Maoist) terms, then purge "racists" etc.

I did a podcast about that and the subtle way it works too, btw.
newdiscourses.com/2024/01/dei-as…

The idea that radicals seeking to effect an institutional takeover and cultural revolution (that is, Gramscian activists) would use whatever power they have to bring in their friends (while purging enemies) is a no-brainer that requires no explanation.

Under an entryist program, though, like Woke Right, just know this: to hire one of them is to hire ten of them because that's exactly what they're going to do with the power afforded to them by getting inside. They'll bring in their friends. Just like the Woke Left did with DEI.

Finally, though I've already kind of explained it, the entryist radicals will use anything they get to purge their enemies (the legitimate representatives of the institution). All of the above tactics lead up to these last two points, which transform around "personnel is policy."

So-called "old guard" members will be increasingly accused of unrecognizable sins they're expected to atone for while being pressured out. Divisive and salacious narratives will be spun to disgrace them within their own communities. They'll be purged.
newdiscourses.com/2024/04/how-ty…

The goal of entryism is to enter and then take over some institution, broadly construed, and to bring it under the control of the radical militant ideology using the entryist tactics. The Woke Left did this to us already. The Woke Right is doing it to us now. Don't let them!