a) piracy is that btw (including pharmaceuticals/diy movement), megaprofits come from ip licenses

b) you can’t infiltrate institutions, because that implies lowkeyness until critical mass, never happened, unlikely ever will after the red scare.

c) the leftists (as in majority ascribed as left) in the imperial core fight the wrong fight (as i perceive it) to overthrow capitalism, they fight for treats instead of against profits (which didn’t not work since collapse of military keynesianism/vietnam war spending/start of neoliberalism) and liberation. If you parse your enemy as profits of capitalist class which gives them power, suddenly you have myriads of options which doesn’t associate with higher wages: anti-trust/low ip protection/lesser working time

outside the system doesn’t exist i agree, but returning to nunes/bogdanov whatever, the increase in friction/resistance of the system serves a goal it’s an orientation to make the system grind and stop, so might as well call it leftwing, instead of inserting fifty epicycles to make it run better or poine for a time it was better.