What goods though? The factory, even if burnt to the ground, is definitely insured and would be built up again or some equivalent facility would be built, the trees torn down to make room wont return because of this, the bourgeoise at large are unaffected because individual actions like these are factored in and wont disturb them. Most of the proletariat will just see arsonists hiding behind a political cause and the people likely to be recruited by this are at risk of just wanting to do more individualist terrorism like this which will just create an organization that is only known for random acts of destruction. I genuinely do not see the productive aspect of this aside from "I personally think this is cool because the left isnt strong enough for large actions, so we can have some self indulgence as a treat".
I think you hit the nail on the head here. We celebrate this (and it is admittedly kind of cool) because we crave the catharsis of seeing people actually doing stuff, but by itself this is not a revolutionary action.
To their credit, it seems like the group itself acknowledged this in their statement, and is mostly hoping that the fire will serve as agitprop. But like you said, I don't think most of the local proles will see it that way.
Direct action gets the goods.
What goods though? The factory, even if burnt to the ground, is definitely insured and would be built up again or some equivalent facility would be built, the trees torn down to make room wont return because of this, the bourgeoise at large are unaffected because individual actions like these are factored in and wont disturb them. Most of the proletariat will just see arsonists hiding behind a political cause and the people likely to be recruited by this are at risk of just wanting to do more individualist terrorism like this which will just create an organization that is only known for random acts of destruction. I genuinely do not see the productive aspect of this aside from "I personally think this is cool because the left isnt strong enough for large actions, so we can have some self indulgence as a treat".
I think you hit the nail on the head here. We celebrate this (and it is admittedly kind of cool) because we crave the catharsis of seeing people actually doing stuff, but by itself this is not a revolutionary action.
To their credit, it seems like the group itself acknowledged this in their statement, and is mostly hoping that the fire will serve as agitprop. But like you said, I don't think most of the local proles will see it that way.