cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31730469
To redirect revolutionary energy from destroying to the system to just criticizing Trump. It is a way for them to gain popular support and show themselves as anti-establishment instead of the bourgeoisie that they are who need to be overthrown
Do we think its possible to counter-coopt these events? Yah or Nah?
Co-opt the events themselves? Unlikely. Recruit from them and agitate within those spaces? Possible, but I'm not gonna do it cause I can't stand libs and would just end up yelling at them
This is the way. Had and HVAC tech come up to a protest I was at that was mostly just anti-Trump/republican policy. When others told him that, he mentioned how local businesses and properties are getting gobbled up by private equity and that there's more going on behind the scenes. There are workers waking up with no direction to aim their frustration. Get out there and show them the way comrades.