Red Guards (United States)

Red guard demonstration in Austin, Texas.

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The Red Guards were a decentralized collection of revolutionary Marxist-Leninist-Maoist and Gozaloist organizations in the United States of America.

Greatly inspired by the Red Guards during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Statesian Red Guards priorities included a strong opposition to Reformism, a militant focus on direct action and eventually, the start of a protracted people's war against the government, and taking "Anti-revisionist" stances againist groups such as the Democratic Socialists of America and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

History

Formation

The Red Guard movement in the United States first originated in the city of Austin, Texas, when in 2015, Communists that were previously participating in an effort to form a communist party based around Marxist-leninist-maoist ideology split, and instead organized into a smaller group of Gozaloist cadres, known as the Austin Red Guards, whose activities were largely limited to charity and small-scale protests in favor of the lGBTQ+ community, which were commonly done under the slogan "serve the people."

Later on, the Austin Red Guards were able to gain popularity among other Maoists for their vocal denouncement of the widely-disliked Trotskyist party, the International Socialist Organization, among other infamous groups. The Austin Red Guards exploited this popularity that was created from their polemical attacks against opportunists to create similar Gozaloist Red Guard collectives (which largely fuctioned as merely front organizations) in other parts of the United States. These Red Guard organizations were allegedly created through coercively spliting rival Maoist collectives, or if that tactic failed, eliminating them as an effective organization entirely.