Imagine having a giant mob willing to march and take the fucking capitol, doing it while the police supported you and the army looked to their bellies, and not even getting concesions out of it. WORSE: your movement and party is shitting itself after it.

I really believe they could have pulled something IF Trump wasn’t Trump.

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Really? Oh c’mon dudes literally can’t even take a shit

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This is really depressing

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no data from PCs that weren’t logged off, unlike the blm CHADS that burned the precinct.

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I mean jfc at least spike the train and road networks with side cadres, establish defensive perimeters, and hit the communication lines.

Didn’t so much as read insurrection tactics 101. Just Pathetic.

I award them 0 points, and may god have mercy on their souls.

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Yes. Can’t share everything I want to because posting your praxis guides on a public forum is not super wise, but a few pointers that immediately come to mind.

The coming insurrection has its flaws and is over-theoretical, but has good stuff. Mao and Che’s Guides to guerilla warfare are classics, but need substantial abstraction to adapt them to a modern urban setting.

I also want to shout out Cory Doctorow’s series Little Brother which while it suffers from fatal 2000s Left-Libertarian syndrome, is a decent overview of civil disobedience tactics circa Occupy, and was written explicitly as a guide for young protesters as a homage to Heinlein’s famous “Here’s how you build a terrorist cell network” passage in The moon is a harsh mistress.

There are many many other guides of the same type, and I want to single out eco socialist protest methodologies as especially effective and adaptable to wider movements. Chaining yourself to heavy industry or putting bricks on a road works everywhere. Things like the Sydney Green Bans are important case studies, as are the classics like Barcelona 1936. Study how they brought major institutions to a standstill.

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Isn’t The Coming Insurrection like Situationist shit or something? I remember J Moufawad-Paul dunking on it in The Communist Necessity

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It’s anticommunist in its origins, but

Total resistance

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Victory Has a Thousand Fathers: Sources of Success in Counterinsurgency

The Green Book (IRA)

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Mao and Che are read in American military academies because they knew their shit. I recommend Mao’s “On Guerrilla Warfare” as well as Võ Nguyên Giáp’s writings. This is Protected People’s War style stuff though, but they stress the need for political organizing as well as military activities which is very important for revolutions.

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Blanqui’s *Instructions for an Armed Uprising * is obvs dated but still has some good stuff in it.

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It’s very good this happened because this is a prime example of action without theory. Stuff like this requires a plan of action, and extra plans to cover extra scenarios.

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Imagine having a giant mob willing to march and take the fucking capitol, doing it while the police supported you and the army looked to their bellies, and not even getting concesions out of it. Worse, your whole movement/party is now shitting itself.

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This is why organization and planning matters. And if something goes to plan, we can’t just collapse. We have to adapt on the go.

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YES exactly

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my favorite description of it was someone calling it a “minor league coup”

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Performative coup.

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Oh yeah, bush league for sure.

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nah, bush’s coup was successful

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ba dum tss

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When a mf says “spontaneity”

:lenin-shining:

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