#protest-movements

#protest-movements

But this might also be a problem. Not because the marchers aren't sincerethey are. Not because moral clarity doesn't matterit does. But because every protest that doesn't lead to organization might be worse than no protest at all. It gives the feeling of agency without the fact of it. It lets us post, share, and check the box marked I did something, while the machinery of power keeps humming, unbothered.

The left's shift away from Leninism to leaderless horizontalism in the wake of the Soviet Union's fall hampered the coherence needed for effective protest movements.