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Don't let anyone tell you the liberal co-option of the #chaz
is a strike for decentralized organizing.
Centralization, a couple moderate figures forming a "leadership", is exactly how shit got co-opted. Fuck everyone who sees themselves as a leader in a mass movement
is a strike for decentralized organizing.
Centralization, a couple moderate figures forming a "leadership", is exactly how shit got co-opted. Fuck everyone who sees themselves as a leader in a mass movement
If there's one lesson to learn from CHAZ, it's that we have to kick out any 'activists' pushing moderation immediately from our spaces and movement.
Don't let leaders into leaderless spaces. Kick them out by any means necessary.
Don't let leaders into leaderless spaces. Kick them out by any means necessary.
i've seen this same cycle happen many times before
- radical movement forms without leadership
- "moderate" activists make themselves known, bring megaphones and start acting like leaders
- people unfamiliar with protest begin following them
-initial radicalism is lost
- radical movement forms without leadership
- "moderate" activists make themselves known, bring megaphones and start acting like leaders
- people unfamiliar with protest begin following them
-initial radicalism is lost
But don't think of a project failing as a bad thing. Imagine a prototype plane going further and further each time it's tested- it lasting a little longer before failing is a success of that test. Each test shows us a little bit of what works and what doesn't.
For instance, CHAZ has helped show us the importance of branding to spreading a radical message - just the name CHAZ inspired a shitton of radical folks all over the world, and judging by the president's tweets, scared the everlasting shit out of the ruling class.
We can also see parts where it failed: when conflict slowed with the cops, it devolved into a street fair and allowed liberal activists to co-opt the protest away from its roots in resistance against SPD and abolitionism.
I feel this means it's important to maintain conflict.
I feel this means it's important to maintain conflict.
If we let a protest get too peaceful, even if it's initially militant, it's going to lose its radical momentum and falter.
In retrospect, I think we should have rendered the precinct inoperable and then focused on other SPD installations.
"When the enemy retreats, we pursue."
In retrospect, I think we should have rendered the precinct inoperable and then focused on other SPD installations.
"When the enemy retreats, we pursue."
i'm just one person who watched this go down btw so please don't take my opinions on it as gospel
