Ecoterrorism is gonna accelerate ecofascism given current conditions. The forces of reaction will use it as an easy excuse to criminalize advocacy. We need to organize into parties ASAP: grow the party, maintain a basic level of discipline, arm yourselves, and constantly be pushing against systemic violence and its representatives in the political system.
Ecoterrorism is gonna accelerate ecofascism given current conditions. The forces of reaction will use it as an easy excuse to criminalize advocacy.
I think it's kinda late for that kind of talk. The Dems ran a Blue Law and Order ticket in the midst of a national uprising. BLM's wins last year only came at the threat of violence and as soon as resistance settled down all those promises went out the window and the Biden regime doubled up cop budgets and have increased the flow of military hardware. And I totally agree with the rest of what you're saying, but there's a point at which we're off the fucking cliff and concerns about someone pushing harder on the accelerator pale in comparison to the quickly approaching ground.
edit: in a twist of crazy random happenstance, just after writing this comment I finished reading Blackshirts and Reds which ends like so:
Ecology is profoundly subversive of capitalism. It needs planned, environmentally sustainable production rather than the rapacious unregulated kind. It requires economical consumption rather than an artificially stimulated, ever-expanding consumerism. It calls for natural, low-cost energy systems rather than profitable, high-cost, polluting ones. Ecology’s implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate.
Those in the higher circles, who once hired Blackshirts to destroy democracy out of fear that their class interests were threatened, have no trouble doing the same against “eco-terrorists.” Those who have waged merciless war against the Reds have no trouble making war against the Greens. Those who have brought us poverty wages, exploitation, unemployment, homelessness, urban decay, and other oppressive economic conditions are not too troubled about bringing us ecological crisis. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to the Earth upon which they live, more concerned with the fate of their fortunes than with the fate of the planet.82
The struggle over environmentalism is part of the class struggle itself, a fact that seems to have escaped many environmentalists. The impending eco-apocalypse is a class act. It has been created by and for the benefit of the few, at the expense of the many. The trouble is, this time the class act may take all of us down, once and forever.
In the relationship between wealth and power, what is at stake is not only economic justice, but democracy itself and the survival of the biosphere. Unfortunately, the struggle for democracy and ecological sanity is not likely to be advanced by trendy, jargonized, ABC theorists who treat class as an outmoded concept and who seem ready to consider anything but the realities of capitalist power. In this they are little different from the dominant ideology they profess to oppose. They are the ones who need to get back on this planet.
The only countervailing force that might eventually turn things in a better direction is an informed and mobilized citizenry. Whatever their shortcomings, the people are our best hope. Indeed, we are they. Whether or not the ruling circles still wear blackshirts, and whether or not their opponents are Reds, la lutta continua, the struggle continues, today, tomorrow, and through all history.
I agree that it is organized leverage that will work, and that's what the protest movement had last year. It wasn't simply violence - and BLM itself attempted to avoid any association with violence - but the mass mobilization of people that created those often temporary, cynical concessions. Though I do think any party will need to arm itself fairly early.
And you're exactly right that the forces of reaction used that situation to eventually not only renege on promises but to work directly against them and further criminalize activism. They used the same logic they'll use witg eco-terrorism, only in that case it won't be a lie and contradiction that can be turned against them in the presence of a mass movement, it will be obvious and direct: seemingly important infrastructure getting destroyed. Natural security will be invoked immediately and in current conditions that creates consent. Private property will receive new protections that prevent any form of on-site activism by outsiders.
This fight will come regardless, but with an actually organized mass movement, a party, there will be a force to truly push back against reaction. Imagine if BLM could've kept mobilization up until all policy demands were written into city charters. An organized party can do much more.
Ecoterrorism is gonna accelerate ecofascism given current conditions. The forces of reaction will use it as an easy excuse to criminalize advocacy. We need to organize into parties ASAP: grow the party, maintain a basic level of discipline, arm yourselves, and constantly be pushing against systemic violence and its representatives in the political system.
I think it's kinda late for that kind of talk. The Dems ran a Blue Law and Order ticket in the midst of a national uprising. BLM's wins last year only came at the threat of violence and as soon as resistance settled down all those promises went out the window and the Biden regime doubled up cop budgets and have increased the flow of military hardware. And I totally agree with the rest of what you're saying, but there's a point at which we're off the fucking cliff and concerns about someone pushing harder on the accelerator pale in comparison to the quickly approaching ground.
edit: in a twist of crazy random happenstance, just after writing this comment I finished reading Blackshirts and Reds which ends like so:
I agree that it is organized leverage that will work, and that's what the protest movement had last year. It wasn't simply violence - and BLM itself attempted to avoid any association with violence - but the mass mobilization of people that created those often temporary, cynical concessions. Though I do think any party will need to arm itself fairly early.
And you're exactly right that the forces of reaction used that situation to eventually not only renege on promises but to work directly against them and further criminalize activism. They used the same logic they'll use witg eco-terrorism, only in that case it won't be a lie and contradiction that can be turned against them in the presence of a mass movement, it will be obvious and direct: seemingly important infrastructure getting destroyed. Natural security will be invoked immediately and in current conditions that creates consent. Private property will receive new protections that prevent any form of on-site activism by outsiders.
This fight will come regardless, but with an actually organized mass movement, a party, there will be a force to truly push back against reaction. Imagine if BLM could've kept mobilization up until all policy demands were written into city charters. An organized party can do much more.