The Good Vanguard, Bad Vanguard Strategy

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 193

Radical movements often tend to advance themselves by means of a vanguard approach in which a radical front pushes the issues and agenda forward while the bulk of the movement comes behind. The Communist dictator Vladimir Lenin was famous tor using this approach to conquer Russia and establish the Soviet Union. The thing is, a more sophisticated strategy doesn't use just one vanguard, but at least two, or maybe more. A "bad vanguard" pushes things too far while a "good vanguard" advances the real agenda, like a game of "good cop, bad cop" but for radical movement politics. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explains this more sophisticated technique of radical advancement and exposes the strategy. Join him to understand what is happening around you even now, as we speak.