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For this reason, social change movements often adopt (and adapt) the same management tools and techniques that large companies have developed for their operations.

Going by the praise he had for his organization and the people helping him, MLK had something like this.

And poorly coordinated and structured movements aren't really suited to doing anything well, even just attacking things and ideas.

When exploited by organized outside forces, they do one thing really well: Create disorder, chaos, and disdain.

I believe it was Thomas Carlysle who said something like, "Revolutions are started by idealists, prosecuted by fanatics, and co-opted by scoundrels."

Tim Pool recently quipped in one of his videos that some copies of the Antifa handbook have explicit instructions to "pretend to be BLM" for cover.




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