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Just need to vent, I swear to god the revolutionary potential in America is just not there. So many people just have zero ideological conviction and because we're not subject to the worst of the empire's violence many feel no constant need to fight it, an encampment can end and so many people just go to brunch. The constant need to fight against the empire's propaganda, infiltrated orgs, and most of all the powerful combination of privilege and individualism is so incredibly exhausting. All that feels good to do is sit home, read theory and talk with my closest comrades, I can't be led into another unprepared police raid by people who had just collaborated with the kops, or in an org led ultimately by some undemocratically elected leader, or talk to another "ML" or anarchist white boy that can't even admit racism and imperialism still fuckin exists.

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[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not coincidentally, this is the same period where the western left takes a turn for a disintegrated, spontaneist approach, with plenty of encouragement from Gladio, COINTELPRO and the like. Protests work as a prong of a greater strategy.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Protests are the compromise, and if they don't get the compromise they're supposed to blossom into revolution.

The Western powers have so thoroughly defanged the left though that the second stage of protest is basically never a threat.

A protest is meant to be brandishing a weapon, but our weapon is a banana.

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

A protest is meant to be brandishing a weapon

I didn't know why protests were sometimes called demonstrations until I'd learned a bit about military strategy

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is this sorta calling for a nonviolent form of protest like the situationalists?

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

It's deliberately unclear. Nihilists have extensive debates about this text and many others, ACs like myself fold it into an exhortation to get serious about attaching ourselves to an accumulating counterpower.