Do some activists reject Micah White's ideas?
Of course. Any thinker who says “mass protest as we know it is obsolete, invent or perish” will trigger push-back. Veteran march organizers hear defeatism, not diagnosis; NGO staff fear a funding winter if head-counts stop mattering; horizontalists distrust his flirtation with strategic leadership; electoral pragmatists bristle when he calls petitions a form of begging. In parts of the Global South, comrades remind us that street numbers still topple cabinets when repression has not yet domesticated familiar rituals. Yet rejection itself is evidence that the argument is alive: ideas only provoke when they threaten someone’s investment in the old script. The deeper question is not whether Micah White is right or wrong but whether our current tactics are credibly on a path to sovereignty. Divergence sharpens strategy. Let the disagreement continue, provided it fuels invention rather than entrenchment. Which cherished ritual are you ready to sacrifice so the movement can once again destabilise power?