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The key is that you can't act in this way and "want to get away with it."
This attitude is an extremely good example of why the average proletarian doesn't take left-wing action seriously in the U.S., if my last decade of personal and organizational interviews and conversations are to be of any particular insight.
They know that if they step out, their neck is on the line, and have absolutely no trust for leftists who are not willing to put their neck out there on the line first, publically and repeatedly. The proletariate are not stupid, they know what is at stake here, and the level of violence that can and will be used to protect it, but often activist leftists don't act as though they under that level of threat of violence. The words they say and picture of the world they paint do not match the level and fervor of action they take, when they decide to take action. It feels like they treat it as a social media game.
Op-sec is essential, but even more essential for the movement is, if you get caught, to stand by your convictions.
Not to try to downplay the tragedy and unfairness here, it fucking sucks to see this, but given the analysis, what exactly am I supposed to expect?
I'm not fully sure I understand what you mean, are you saying that since the state will crack down so hard on them regardless of what they do, these groups shouldn't waste time with these sorts of "solidarity protest" actions and just actually start doing genuinely revolutionary action, since the punishment is the same either way?
Correct, in part.
If they truely believe that the bourgeois state is the monstrous entity that they portray it as (which btw it is), then there are two rational options, either ducking your head down and going about your life hoping that if you stay in line the state will not come for you OR commiting to a truely revolutionary actiom that actually shakes the foundations of state apparatus. Anything in-between means that they don't actually think the state is as monstrous or as dangerous as they portray it as. It's not a fallacy of maximization, it is a matching of rhetoric with rational action.
Proletarians, no matter their education level, but particularly for the factory-educated, are extremely sensitive to this kind of stuff because they live this disconnect between rhetoric and action from ownership on a daily basis. Ownership will come out with a huge display of rhetoric and then never actually act in accordance to that level of rhetoric.
I remember hearing how during the Civil Rights Movement, those organizers that so-called revolutionaries think they're too radical for would not allow people to participate in those protests until they wrote their will. Any potential protestor had to seriously content with the fact that even with the mildest protest that they could fucking die and their affairs had to be made in order should they be murdered by the state.
Yeah, this, exactly this. Those were some people whose actions matched their rhetoric.
Ah, I see, no disagreements here, thanks for clarifying!