Why we need to keep the movement together
The left, over the broad span of history, has always been victorious when it has both "good cops" and "bad cops", both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. The (relative) humanization of capitalism which took place in the rich countries of the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century depended on both the threat of red revolution and anarchist syndicalism, AND on reformists who were willing to take 1/3 of what their supporters wanted rather than fight to the end. We need now and in the future to have black, pink, pacifists, and the Bonos etc pressing at the same time.
What should be clear however is that slogans like "fuck the police" are childish and stupid (if not the work of agent provocateurs). The police are a bunch of scared 20 year old bullies, even if our side had killed thousands of them it would have had absolutely no effect on the global state/economic regime which is modern capitalism. The bastards will always have more guns and more hate than we do: we have to be smarter and more loving than them: thats where we have strategic advantages
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