Prior to the Indonesian genocide of the 1960s, where the CIA installed a military dictatorship that the lives of millions, the country’s communist party technically did warn about the peril. The problem was that this warning had been made in a reactive way, and therefore wasn’t nearly enough to prepare the people to fight back.
Like how video essayists all critique culture because it’s easy and nebulous, so too is calling for “resistance” or “organizing” and pointing vaguely at the collapsing imperialist state