Strategic Disruption

Democratic politics vs. blowing up pipelines is not a great debate. Militant disruption shouldn’t be written out of the tactical repertoire, but it matters who causes it, and to what end.

As western societies appear to spiral around the drain, with slow decline and the erosion of living standards punctuated with shocks of war and right-populist furor, the appeal of radical tactics is bound to grow on the Left. The world is falling apart, and so, as Andreas Malm explains in a recent video interview, “we have to go beyond the strict protoc…