"limited strategic effectiveness of big marches"https://twitter.com/BigMeanInternet/status/887660752726831105 …
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Replying to @nathanjurgenson
@bigmeaninternet As someone cited there explaining the strategic ineffectiveness of marches, let me say that the idea that confrontation+1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
is somehow more effective is at best naive, and almost certainly counterproductive. Disruption has only been wielded positively+
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by very very few movements in history; and all of them have been very disciplined and far, far far far ahead of the current US movement.
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Replying to @zeynep @nathanjurgenson
I don't think they were agreeing with your politics in general, I think they're coming from a very different, explicitly Marxist place. :)
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Replying to @BigMeanInternet @nathanjurgenson
My politics aside, the question is the theory of change. Insert your own politics, the question is what is the theory of change?
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There is an enormous amount of magical thinking about how change actually happens--and the magical thinking is almost politics agnostic.
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