CROWDS AND PROTESTS AND RADICAL THOUGHT
This article offered pause for thought. If you are an ecosocialist, or anyone who thinks differently in a society moving toward police-state status, the theories of "mass action" have no status for you. So 100,000 people show up at your rally? How many of them think as you do? How many of them don't? How many of them are police infiltrators? Others won't express your truth for you. If you want society to change, you must start with how you yourself are an expression of that want -- and make the truth of that self-expression even more glaringly apparent against the background of a movement that distinguishes itself (and thanks its numbers) by its indecision as to what it really wants to do, a movement under police pressure for even daring to think for itself.
This article offered pause for thought. If you are an ecosocialist, or anyone who thinks differently in a society moving toward police-state status, the theories of "mass action" have no status for you. So 100,000 people show up at your rally? How many of them think as you do? How many of them don't? How many of them are police infiltrators? Others won't express your truth for you. If you want society to change, you must start with how you yourself are an expression of that want -- and make the truth of that self-expression even more glaringly apparent against the background of a movement that distinguishes itself (and thanks its numbers) by its indecision as to what it really wants to do, a movement under police pressure for even daring to think for itself.
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