That’s a reasonably optimistic way to look at it. Unfortunately from what I can tell and what I’ve been told this entire experience and knowledge has essentially been funneled back into the bourgeois electoral system, most prominently to the neolib Green party. So not sure what good it really is.
I wasn’t involved enough to know if it was doomed to fail, but looking at the socioeconomic composition of the movement here (mainly upper-middle class white girls/young women), the age of the protestors and the existing, well-established mechanism of cooption in form of the Green party makes me doubt this ever had much of a chance. Still, a bit disheartening to see all of this just end up backing the neoliberal status quo.
We’ll see if they end up coming around to it or just become disillusioned (seems most likely) or back to conforming to the norm.
I’m really not deeply familiar with Fridays For Future organizing. so I don’t have much insight into the movement here.
Often in my area the strikes would coincide with the Palestinian Society’s rallies, so my experience is largely with young people involved in the strikes coming to join Palestinian solidarity rallies, which is where my optimism stems from.
That’s a reasonably optimistic way to look at it. Unfortunately from what I can tell and what I’ve been told this entire experience and knowledge has essentially been funneled back into the bourgeois electoral system, most prominently to the neolib Green party. So not sure what good it really is.
I wasn’t involved enough to know if it was doomed to fail, but looking at the socioeconomic composition of the movement here (mainly upper-middle class white girls/young women), the age of the protestors and the existing, well-established mechanism of cooption in form of the Green party makes me doubt this ever had much of a chance. Still, a bit disheartening to see all of this just end up backing the neoliberal status quo.
We’ll see if they end up coming around to it or just become disillusioned (seems most likely) or back to conforming to the norm.
I’m really not deeply familiar with Fridays For Future organizing. so I don’t have much insight into the movement here.
Often in my area the strikes would coincide with the Palestinian Society’s rallies, so my experience is largely with young people involved in the strikes coming to join Palestinian solidarity rallies, which is where my optimism stems from.