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A term used in leftist and anti-capitalist communities for infiltrators who join movements, groups, or parties with the sole goal of demobilizing and dismantling them from within—almost always through non-violent, imperceptible means. Demobilizing agents don't provoke violence or illegal acts (that would expose them); they sow confusion, promote factionalism, advocate for moderation, drain energy into endless process, and systematically undermine momentum. They're the reason meetings go nowhere, why coalitions fragment, why revolutionary energy dissipates into reformist paperwork. Demobilizing agents are the most effective infiltrators because they're indistinguishable from genuine members—they believe in the cause, just enough to be convincing, and just little enough to sabotage it.
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