Imagine having a giant mob willing to march and take the fucking capitol, doing it while the police supported you and the army looked to their bellies, and not even getting concesions out of it. WORSE: your movement and party is shitting itself after it.
I really believe they could have pulled something IF Trump wasn't Trump.
Yes. Can't share everything I want to because posting your praxis guides on a public forum is not super wise, but a few pointers that immediately come to mind.
The coming insurrection has its flaws and is over-theoretical, but has good stuff. Mao and Che's Guides to guerilla warfare are classics, but need substantial abstraction to adapt them to a modern urban setting.
I also want to shout out Cory Doctorow's series Little Brother which while it suffers from fatal 2000s Left-Libertarian syndrome, is a decent overview of civil disobedience tactics circa Occupy, and was written explicitly as a guide for young protesters as a homage to Heinlein's famous "Here's how you build a terrorist cell network" passage in The moon is a harsh mistress.
There are many many other guides of the same type, and I want to single out eco socialist protest methodologies as especially effective and adaptable to wider movements. Chaining yourself to heavy industry or putting bricks on a road works everywhere. Things like the Sydney Green Bans are important case studies, as are the classics like Barcelona 1936. Study how they brought major institutions to a standstill.
Isn't The Coming Insurrection like Situationist shit or something? I remember J Moufawad-Paul dunking on it in The Communist Necessity
Yes, and that's my primary criticism of it. Doesn't mean the tools described aren't useful in a more organised and directed framework. Tendencies are toolkits not identities.
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