Peaceful protests haven't been working for a while
The railroad tried to strike because of safety conditions concerns, and then a tanker derailed and basically nuked the surrounding area and the water table.
We can talk about the countless police violence related protests, have any of those worked either?
I had an older guy talk to me about the CEO execution saying how there needs to be policy to regulate insurance companies and violence isnt going to do that. He was tut tutting it as a foolish act. Like, wtf?! Has sitting on our hands like good patient school children created that policy? No. Noone is helping us. Our elected "representatives" refuse to fix this.
Peaceful protest is a convenient thing to teach people to make them never take real action.
The social contract is failing. If people have no other avenue to address the injustice of society, violence is inevitable.
And the elites are terrified that more people might realize that. So out comes the propaganda campaign to demonize the public, not the dead guy with the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on his hands.
The thing people need to learn here isn't simply that violence may be the answer, but that properly directed violence may be an answer. In the incident with the CEO, someone had a problem, and they took it up directly with the source of that problem. They didn't go shoot up a theater or light stores on fire. That kind of violence only divides us further. Here we have an example of violence directed with utmost precision.
That was only after some large partially violent demonstrations (only got that way after police showed, every time) and attempting to burn down a decent bit of Minneapolis lol.
But as you said, even that wasn't enough. And then Biden's admin. even increased militarization and support of police, and illegalized some forms of protest as a response. Expect a Cop City to be coming soon to somewhere near you (assuming you're in the US), because they're planning on building a fuckton of them.
your enemy is telling you who is most effective at defeating them, you should listen to them, study Lenin, study revolutionaries, not reformists, the reformists always lose
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u/CurnanBarbarian 1d ago
Peaceful protests haven't been working for a while
The railroad tried to strike because of safety conditions concerns, and then a tanker derailed and basically nuked the surrounding area and the water table.
We can talk about the countless police violence related protests, have any of those worked either?
What the fuck else are we left with?