I agree that it is organized leverage that will work, and that's what the protest movement had last year. It wasn't simply violence - and BLM itself attempted to avoid any association with violence - but the mass mobilization of people that created those often temporary, cynical concessions. Though I do think any party will need to arm itself fairly early.
And you're exactly right that the forces of reaction used that situation to eventually not only renege on promises but to work directly against them and further criminalize activism. They used the same logic they'll use witg eco-terrorism, only in that case it won't be a lie and contradiction that can be turned against them in the presence of a mass movement, it will be obvious and direct: seemingly important infrastructure getting destroyed. Natural security will be invoked immediately and in current conditions that creates consent. Private property will receive new protections that prevent any form of on-site activism by outsiders.
This fight will come regardless, but with an actually organized mass movement, a party, there will be a force to truly push back against reaction. Imagine if BLM could've kept mobilization up until all policy demands were written into city charters. An organized party can do much more.
I agree that it is organized leverage that will work, and that's what the protest movement had last year. It wasn't simply violence - and BLM itself attempted to avoid any association with violence - but the mass mobilization of people that created those often temporary, cynical concessions. Though I do think any party will need to arm itself fairly early.
And you're exactly right that the forces of reaction used that situation to eventually not only renege on promises but to work directly against them and further criminalize activism. They used the same logic they'll use witg eco-terrorism, only in that case it won't be a lie and contradiction that can be turned against them in the presence of a mass movement, it will be obvious and direct: seemingly important infrastructure getting destroyed. Natural security will be invoked immediately and in current conditions that creates consent. Private property will receive new protections that prevent any form of on-site activism by outsiders.
This fight will come regardless, but with an actually organized mass movement, a party, there will be a force to truly push back against reaction. Imagine if BLM could've kept mobilization up until all policy demands were written into city charters. An organized party can do much more.