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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[–] footfaults@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think it's productive and takes away from the political message that should be focused on about police brutality, but I'm equally not going out of my way to defend these huge corporations either.

[–] ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

Random looting of consumer goods is a crude political message and is a sign that yet another revolutionary moment has come and gone without the left offering sufficient organization to channel its fervor.