The dumbest criticism of mass actions is that they lack leaders or don't have a long term strategy. Go back to seducing your grad students.
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Gay rights had strategy, a lot of decision making, forms of leadership. Also an existential threat to well defined group.
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We've had huge marches. The powerful can ignore them unless it signals futher capacity to threaten their power. Will push out*
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I've been thinking a metaphor of hammer and anvil. The hammer (direct action) needs the anvil (electoral organizing) & v.v.
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So the Women's March needs an emboldened and organized Democratic Party.
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Replying to @kevinriggle @ftrain
Well, people need to go out there and organize a lot of things; sometimes in spite of existing institutions. sigh
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