Social Movements and Radicalization
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Countersubversion Theory
Outdated model of recruitment
The Slippery Slope Theory of Subversion:
•Global liberation movements are not prompted by a genuine response to social conditions but by outside intervention, most often by communists or their proxies.
•Domestic social change movements are not fueled by a genuine response to social conditions but by outside agitators, most often revolutionaries or those under the control of revolutionaries.
•Liberalism is the crest of a slippery slope which leads downhill to the Welfare State, then Socialism, and inevitably to Communism or Totalitarianism.
•Dissent is provoked by subversion. Subversion is a terrorist movement. Terrorism is criminal.
Slippery Slope theorists generally also believe in the Onion-ring theory as well.