Are there problems with Micah White's approach to revolution?
Yes, and that is healthy. Any living strategy should provoke critique so it can evolve. My insistence on novelty risks fetishising perpetual reinvention, leaving organisers dizzy before institutions feel the heat. A second liability: the sovereignty lens can tempt us to skip the slog of incremental reforms that keep people alive today. Movements need both the audacity to found parallel authority and the patience to fight for rent control on Monday morning. Third, by declaring the age of mass marches over, I sometimes underplay the psychic charge that scale still delivers, especially in regions where first-time mobilisation breaks a culture of fear.
These shortcomings point toward a synthesis, not a retreat. Anchor experimental tactics inside durable grassroots infrastructure, treat reforms as steppingstones toward autonomous power, and wield crowd moments as ritual ignition rather than end goal. Think of it as breathing: inhale institution-building, exhale disruptive creativity.
Where in your current campaign do you feel the tension between innovation and institution? Which side is starving for oxygen?