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Militants in Philladephia loot shopping centers in retaliation for the murder by police of Eddie Irizarry (6abc.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is what putting people in a pressure cooker of $8/hr minimum wage, state violence and $1500/mo rents yields.

Also, whatever you think of this action (I happen to be against it because it's illegal.), acknowledge that mobilizing this many people is the result of invisible forms of organizing, not neccesarily legible to the "left" whose traditions cross-polinate with the professionalized activism of ngos, labor unions and political parties.

It's just a shame that it was expressed this way. We need major social democratic reforms and avenues for disenfranchised people to exercise political power so these kinds of desperate actions don't disrupt our lives.

The provocative title is a way to call attention to the ways that overseas reporting and domestic reporting on social conflict differ. A detournament of imperialist propaganda if you will.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm gonna drop the bit for a minute

I agree with you that disruption is neccesary and that the DSA isn't going to make significant change through their electoral practice.

But when you say stuff like "a real revolution isn't a real option" and advocate for "a mass registration exodus" you lose me a little.

Even if a revolution isn't on the immediate horizon, we can take actions that disrupt the processes of capitalism.

When we strike we pause the commodification of our labor. When we steal food and share it we pause the commodification of food. When we build communes in Welaunee forest or the ZAD, we we put a pause on atomized life and alienation.

Revolution is when we take these direct actions on a mass scale. So don't organize towards a third party, organize towards sustainable direct action and build our capacities to take more direct actions.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am now picking up on the bit now that you are pointing it out (my dumbfuck ass missed the obvious tells lol). So I responded initially with my very basic attempt at working with socdems, which is also dumb the more I think about it. Though I do personally believe that getting more normie people to un-register for either party and be unaffiliated would be interesting to see how they responded to it. I am deleting my post as I would for sharing an Onion article without seeing where it was from. lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

🌽 me irl