Yea, and what good did the LA riot, or the Watts riot, or the Newark riot or the Detroit riot do ? What good did all the guillotining in the French Rev do ? They accomplished nothing. What a fool that John Brown was ? He had no chance of winning. The Paris Commune was doomed to failure, as Marx noted.
One must confine one's activistism to electoral politics and peaceful demonstration, less we offend people's sensibilities. As Lenin said, the masses are only capable of spontaneous action without PEN-L cooler heads injecting revolutionary discipline from the outside. Emily Post
