One of my friends is very proud to have been arrested during a BLM riot. Flash bangs, tear gas, all that. Now he brings it up as some sort of arguing point: "YEA WELL WHERE WERE YOU?"
So they all got arrested and had to stay outside all night while being held. Today im talking to him and he claims they changed alot. He brought up "all those convictions" but only one cop was convicted last year while over 200 were killed. Then he mentioned Aubery who was murdered in Alabama, but they were private citizens not cops, and there was literally video of the murder. Naturally he didn't seem to take that fact well.
Defunding didnt happen much either. Is this just a liberal brain trying to convince themselves theyve done something useful? Because nothing really changed after they dragged Bernie away either.
if it helps, they also think only red fascism has existed and theres never been a successful communist country.
If I remember correctly Lenin said anarchism is what people turn to when the socialist party fails. America doesn't have a socialist party so of course all there is to do is either join the Dems or riot and get arrested. Both go nowhere.
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That protests can be harnessed to create organization is an older observation. Luxemberg wrote about it when she saw how the Russian Revolution of 1905 created organization where there wasn't any, and further strengthened organizations where there already was organization. https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/index.htm
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