Yes, protesting can help tyrants like Trump, with its scenes of disorder. But that’s no reason to stay at home | Zoe Williams
WHen Donald Trump was elected in the first round, the works of the German German philosopher Hana Arndt from the shelves in the United States. Not all of this was good news – JD Vance’s Hillbillly Elegy was also a popular increase and Trump, of course, was still about to be president. But Arndt’s famous work 1951, the origins of totalitarianism, He was selling In 16 times its usual rate, which means that by the time of protests focused on the opening in January 2017, at least some of these people read it.
Arandt’s view of popular demonstrations was complicated. It was not blind to the way the authoritarian rulers used the general protest as an excuse to display the physical force, which is embodied in the police, and which turns the state into an army against its people, and changing that relationship. If the government is no longer approval, it is a ruling by force, and they have equipment. However, I wrote about Germany in the thirties of the twentieth century, and quoted from French activist David Rosset, “The protest is historical importance? These doubts are a real masterpiece of the Special Security Forces. It is an elegant loss: If you lose the will to protest, you have been ethically killed, but if you do not, you play in the hands of the tyrant.
but Women’s marches in January 2017 The police did not cause. No one has been arrested through two million demonstrators who gathered in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and Sayattle. Commentators asked whether this was because of the women’s women and their allies, while academics conducted comparisons with hundreds of arrests that were made during Ferguson uprising For the year 2014 (which, of course, occurred during the era of President Obama). “Tanks and rubber bullets versus the Haris and upper calligraphers” are how one of the researchers, Abi Harrington, described the contrast, which made the issue convincing that the demonstrators were treated differently with racist causes mainly. It will be wrong, and sexual animals in fact, to say that women are not considered worthy of violent repression because they do not seem serious enough. It would be wrong, too, to say that they did not affect – they were tremendous, separated across 408 places in the United States, and gathering Some estimates More than 4 million Americans, solidarity protests on seven continents, including one in Antarctica.
However, the demand was very wide and therefore loose, however: the demonstrators wanted “vibrant and varied societies” recognized as “the power of our country.” They wanted reproductive rights, tolerance and protection from violence; In mutual respect, ethnic equality, gender equality, workers ’rights – was an invitation to elegance, in which the leader felt no need to respond, almost by definition, because it is not fit.
Latter American protests It was postponed last Friday at approximately 9 am, as the border patrol customers were collected outside the home warehouse in Paramount, mostly Latin area in Los Angeles. One of the members of the association, Jose Luis Sloach Junior, was driving his car in the past, so the scenes, which looked a hoax even days before the arrival of the National Guard. The demonstrators began to reach, not in large numbers, but with a wide goal – to prevent a migration raid from people trying to take their jobs. It came on the back of the arrest of a senior official in the federation in the fashion area, one father Arrest In front of his eight -year -old son. The message, when the border guards sweep a workplace or the courtroom where people examine regular immigration, is completely clear: this is not related to the deportation of the hard -to -hard criminals.
The demand for archers was clearly clear: our friends, neighbors, or colleagues do not arrest, when they do not pose any danger to anyone. since then, 700 naval infantry has been deployed To the city, and the number of national guards has doubled to 4000. The situation remembers the later Arndit work, on violence, as it argues that power and violence are in fact – the state creates Tinderbox positions when it lost the expectations of public compliance. So if the protests are symbolic, it will be played in the hands of the government: abstract resistance creates a justification for the tangible repression. But the protests are not symbolic – the alternative to protest against a raid by border guards is to allow the raid to move forward and lose these neighbors.
The American -Russian column writer and author M Gessen cited discrimination in political science between faith, as you believe that justice will be simply and hope, as you notice and participate. “You cannot take action without hope, but you cannot also have hope without taking action,” Jessen wrote in the New York Times. Everyone has a line that he has pushed to work – no one will not lie in front of the government truck if their child is kidnapped and put inside him by masked men. So the true art of the authoritarian state is not only weakening preventive institutions, but also to enhance the conditions of fear and despair before the critical mass finds the maximum. It is not clear, however, whether the repression is a deliberate scene in order to create this fear, or whether, on the contrary, it is the accidental creation of the conditions that require a procedure.
