yea, agreed. my nit is that we should be recruiting the people on the streets who are willing to fight the cops into a revolutionary party. but it's the anarchists who have built those relationships and consequently garnered that trust. it's one of my frustrations with, for example, PSL. the people who are already willing to stand in front of a police line in front of the white house, facing flashbangs and rubber bullets night after night - those people don't need to be radicalized, only educated on how to effectively channel their anger and actually bring down the state. we only hurt ourselves by ignoring them and PSL's absence in the more radical protests is visible.
yea, agreed. my nit is that we should be recruiting the people on the streets who are willing to fight the cops into a revolutionary party. but it's the anarchists who have built those relationships and consequently garnered that trust. it's one of my frustrations with, for example, PSL. the people who are already willing to stand in front of a police line in front of the white house, facing flashbangs and rubber bullets night after night - those people don't need to be radicalized, only educated on how to effectively channel their anger and actually bring down the state. we only hurt ourselves by ignoring them and PSL's absence in the more radical protests is visible.