Most people who go to mass actions are already radical and active in some kind of political struggle. Mass actions politicize these folks even more, but they leave behind the vast majority of our neighbors for whom even working together to stand up to the boss or march against police brutality is a huge first step. The risk is that these mass direct actions will only create a militant core of people ready to throw themselves onto the gears of capitalism and face down police violence again and again. Eventually, increasing state repression will scare away even most of the vanguard, and smash the rest. More importantly, we need to be part of a wider movement in order to survive state repression and make the kinds of radical changes we re fighting for a reality.
Mass mobilizations can work, but only if they don t take the place of local resistance.
Only by organizing at home can we build an anti-capitalist movement broad enough and strong enough to win.