Meanwhile Americans are holding peaceful protests that will change everything… Just like the Pro Palestinian protests changed everything, just like the massive global protests stopped the second Gulf War… It’s time people realise that while protesting peacefully does bring awareness, it changes nothing, especially when the administration is purposely working against the interests of the majority of the population.
Yeah, Like the last generation was successful in advocating climate activism, the German RAF successfully sparked a revolution with their kidnapping and bombings, like the IRA successfully drove out the English from Northern Ireland or like Ghandi failed to free Britain and the East Germans tore down the wall with dynamite.
The 3.5% theory is extremely questionable. The first paragraph of this article is problematic if you know like 3 things about Philippine politics.
I’ve dug deeper into the data and it is very opinionated how it defines “success” and violence/nonviolence.
I’m not a pro-violence guy, i defend liberation struggles, buv work to create educational/political/cultural revolution. Also the 3.5% mobilized population would be rad AF in USAmerica.
I haven’t read the whole book the study is based on, though I was working on it for a while. But IMO it misrepresents historical fact to make a nice-sounding abstraction, and I’m not sure how people will react to its failure, which would be based on a faulty premise.
We need to be more focused on what we will do with the power that will come from mobilizing like 12 million Americans rather than hoping some members of the political class notice and decide to fix things. The actual problem is that power is kept out of the hands of workers. The thought of building that power and giving it away would be a catastrophic blow to our movements.
The political system is empowered to fix problems, but not equipped. As far as I can tell, the only people who have ever created or fixed a goddamn thing in all of history have been workers.
Meanwhile Americans are holding peaceful protests that will change everything… Just like the Pro Palestinian protests changed everything, just like the massive global protests stopped the second Gulf War… It’s time people realise that while protesting peacefully does bring awareness, it changes nothing, especially when the administration is purposely working against the interests of the majority of the population.
Yeah, Like the last generation was successful in advocating climate activism, the German RAF successfully sparked a revolution with their kidnapping and bombings, like the IRA successfully drove out the English from Northern Ireland or like Ghandi failed to free Britain and the East Germans tore down the wall with dynamite.
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The 3.5% theory is extremely questionable. The first paragraph of this article is problematic if you know like 3 things about Philippine politics.
I’ve dug deeper into the data and it is very opinionated how it defines “success” and violence/nonviolence.
I’m not a pro-violence guy, i defend liberation struggles, buv work to create educational/political/cultural revolution. Also the 3.5% mobilized population would be rad AF in USAmerica.
I haven’t read the whole book the study is based on, though I was working on it for a while. But IMO it misrepresents historical fact to make a nice-sounding abstraction, and I’m not sure how people will react to its failure, which would be based on a faulty premise.
We need to be more focused on what we will do with the power that will come from mobilizing like 12 million Americans rather than hoping some members of the political class notice and decide to fix things. The actual problem is that power is kept out of the hands of workers. The thought of building that power and giving it away would be a catastrophic blow to our movements.
The political system is empowered to fix problems, but not equipped. As far as I can tell, the only people who have ever created or fixed a goddamn thing in all of history have been workers.
We are in a new world, it’s very hard to compare the grip billionaires have on policy with what was happening in the 70’s onwards.