RevLeft

[[File:RevLeft logo.gif|thumb|right|165px|RevLeft logo]]
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{{cquote|Particularly on the Left, political thought is a sort of [[masturbation]] fantasy in which the world of facts hardly matters.|||[[George Orwell]]}}
'''RevLeft''' was a [[moonbat#According to liberals|far left]] website consisting primarily of a forum. Billing itself as the "home of the revolutionary left", it supported [[communism]], [[anarchism]], and hardline "[[antifa]]" (anti-fascism). It was also [[Schism|factionalism]] incarnate. On a side note, you can show this site to anyone who refers to [[Obama]] and the [[Democratic Party]] (or even [[Bernie Sanders]]) as "[[socialists]]". Rest assured it will stop. As of June 11, 2018, RevLeft is no longer active as a forum.

==Structure==
RevLeft had subforums devoted to specific subjects, including [[Occupy Wall Street]],<ref>http://www.revleft.com/vb/occupy-wallstreet-and-f270/index.html?s=&daysprune=100&f=270</ref> the [[Arab Spring]],<ref>http://www.revleft.com/vb/arab-world-protests-f266/index.html</ref> and [[Che Guevara]].<ref>http://www.revleft.com/vb/ernesto-che-guevara-f13/index.html?s=&daysprune=100&f=13</ref> Alongside all these were debates over whether [[Pokemon]] promotes a capitalist or socialist worldview.<ref>http://www.revleft.com/vb/capitalist-pok-mon-t174942/index.html</ref>

The site had its own [[wiki]], although those expecting a far-left equivalent of [[Metapedia]]{{efn|Which, incidentally, has a hilarious article about RevLeft: "RevLeft has a strict policy of banning anybody who doesn't support the [[Cultural Marxism|Jewish social agenda]] pertaining to [[homosexuality]], [[feminism]], immigration, [[abortion]], internationalism and other social-ills which are pushed by decadent liberal scum in the West."}} will have found it disappointingly tame. Amongst the burning issues covered was [[The Catcher in the Rye|Holden Caulfield]].<ref><capture>http://web.archive.org/web/20090810105338/http://www.revleft.com/wiki/index.php/Holden_Caulfield</capture></ref> The wiki had been removed, probably for being rubbish.

RevLeft was also [[ironic]] in that its user base liked to complain about [[censorship]] by the [[government]]/the right/the evil [[capitalist]]s, while taking anyone who was not a revolutionary communist/anarchist and putting them in their own little forum called "opposing ideologies". The site even auto-censored certain words such as RedMarx (a hostile/rival forum), Rooster (an influential and infamous member who got banned), and others… but not the name of their supposed arch-enemies at [[StormFront]].<ref>http://www.revleft.com/vb/other-radical-theory-t179843/index3.html</ref> 

The forum had an excessive history of cliquishness revolving around the reputation point system, a system that both discriminated against the supposed newbs if their rep count is low and also encouraged the same old [[flame war]]s over the respectability of [[Leon Trotsky]] that basically forced posters to write the same stupid one liners and essentially whore themselves and their positions for imaginary credits.

There had been many ebbs and flows in the entertainment value and respectability RevLeft had to offer, and ironically many failed revolutions against the moderation team - which was hardly surprising considering the level of intellectual maturity shown by certain members of the team.<ref>http://www.revleft.com/vb/men-interject-womens-t166367/index.html?p=2330448#post2330448.</ref> This made for an interesting parallel to the Communist Party of the [[Soviet Union]], with constant power struggles and members getting banned after being denounced for their (real or imagined) ideological deviation (i.e. a [[secular]] equivalent of [[heresy]]). One infamous case involved forum moderator Ismail (successfully) calling for a mass ban due to a supposed [[fascist]] infiltration of RevLeft through forum games. Seriously.<ref>https://www.revleft.space/vb/threads/189929-Revleft-purges</ref> <ref>https://hollaforums.com/thread/1350815/activism/mexican-revolution-forum-game.html</ref>

==Purges==
The site was essentially (in Trotskyist terminology) a deformed workers' state, controlled by a [[junta]] that tightly controlled public discourse and used shady means<ref>http://aggregator.anarchyplanet.org/page/15/</ref> to eliminate all opposition while usually pretending there was nothing going on.  

Notable events in the site's history included the great purge of 2011, which although supposedly centered on "fascist" infiltration of the map games subforum led to a collective outburst of anti-moderator sentiment and ended in half-assed [[devil's advocate]]s who were clearly [[sock puppet]]s of the mods (the rep of one guy shot up exponentially even though everyone disliked his posts) and the all-out shutdown of the site while the junta put online dissident ringleaders into the infinite loop or outright banning, and the Avanti event, where a legitimately deranged person spread the ideology of cyberpunk anarchism/complete collapse of civilization into armed gangs through a strangely intoxicating mix of poetry and a lack of sentence structure.<ref>http://www.revleft.com/vb/search.php?searchid=5204039</ref> A general amnesty was declared, but few returned, mainly due to the lack of fun and continued disappearances.

The common purges had spawned several splinter forums, all of them now defunct, such as [http://www.red-marx.com/index.php RedMarx], [http://www.revforum.com/forum.php RevForum] and The Red Flag. All these forums had never managed to approach the activity level of RevLeft, since most members stopped posting soon after getting banned from RevLeft, with only a dozen or so hardliners.

Many posts detailing these happenings could be found on RedMarx.com, but were eventually deleted. Their existence can still be confirmed via Google.[https://www.google.hr/search?q=redmarx%20revleft%20archive&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a]

==Criticism==
RevLeft had been the target of criticism from the invitingly-named blog Maoist Rebel News, authored by a self-publishing e-book mogul named Jason Unruhe.<ref>http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/MaoistRebelNews His book store is basically his blog posts bound in volumes, how original.</ref> In a post entitled "RevLeft is a Bunch of [[Pedophile]]-[[Zionist]]s" the blog pointed to a thread at the forum in which moderators argued that child pornography should be legalised, and went on to attack the owner of RevLeft for being pro-[[Israel]].<ref>http://maoistrebelnews.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/revleft-is-a-bunch-of-pedophile-zionists/</ref> 

Despite the label of being a home for radical leftists of all stripes, [[Hard green|Anarcho-Primitivists]], Third-Worldists and [[Juche]]ists were all considered to be “Opposing Ideologies”, and prevented from having access to the main forums, groups, etc.<ref>http://trotskyite.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/revleft/ Critique of the site by a radical leftist</ref> Their stance on market socialism was unclear, but it seems most of its adherents were restricted.<ref>http://www.revleft.com/vb/market-socialism-t159134/index.html</ref><ref>http://www.revleft.com/vb/member.php?u=37758</ref><ref>http://www.revleft.com/vb/member.php?u=35097</ref>

==The good==
Aside from all this, RevLeft had produced an excellent, comprehensive take-down of the oft-repeated [[white nationalist]] mantra "[[Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white]]".<ref>[http://www.revleft.com/vb/anti-racism-codeword-t183621/index.html?t=183621 'Anti-Racism is a codeword for Anti-White' - RevLeft]</ref>

==External links==
* [http://www.revleft.com/vb/ RevLeft], where they indulged in their moonbattery.
* [http://trotskyite.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/revleft/ Critique of the site by a radical leftist]

==See also==
* [[Reddit#Tankies]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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