“When Frantz Fanon, the Political Mind enters the battlefield, destroy all enemy permanents attached to permanents you control”-ass watermark

  • Kefla [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    Peaceful protest is cool, it should just be done in conjunction with violent protest. Capitalists sometimes compromise with the peaceful crowd if they’re backed up by the underlying threat of a violent mob making the same demands.

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      3 days ago

      Good ol’ radical flank theory. If anyone is interested in a great book about this, “How to blow up a pipeline” is a must read.

    • thatsnomayo [he/him]@lemmy.mlOPB
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      3 days ago

      Oh I remember thinking this years ago during US protests, that if we could just have anarchist violence around the city then the police would be unable to corral and beat the peaceful protestors. The problem is that adding violence to disorganized consciousness raising activism does nothing. The political energy can only be absorbed and redirected by the far right. This strategy was designed by Gene Sharpe to do CIA groundwork for color revolution. Without regime change jackals lying in wait the whole thing is fruitless. Impersonating the jackals is a bad idea.