JOAQUIN FLORES | – A Fort Russ and Greanville Post Feature –
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Electric Yerevan protest provides us with an excellent opportunity to review some of the basic underlying mechanics and psychology of the Color-Spring tactic. It is important to share these publicly, for it is indeed probable that the Color-Spring tactic will be increasingly applied in the world as a “hybrid soft-power/hard-power tactic”.
A moral principle held by Gene Sharp, who was one of the tactic’s main developers, was that violence is not necessary for revolution. What is strange, contradictory, even dishonest here is that violence is reduced taxonomically to the physical violence of the state’s gendarmes against the civilians. But we know that violence comes in many forms. (But the state violence condemned is invariably only that of governments that Washington wishes to destroy. Tyrants and butchers in charge of client states that US ruling circles find helpful to their designs can do as they please with full American support.)
Gene Sharp – a man of ‘Non-Violence’. Is he a saint, or a CIA agent? A man of his intellect, does he really not understand the forces he is aiding? |
Because there is an organizational history of protests, with organizers taking notes and perfecting various methods and strategems on the ground, US financed organizers may now believe they are in the position to escalate the present protest into a ‘regime change’ scenario.
“Organizing science shows that mass protests without organization and leadership do not occur effectively, if at all. When they are effective and appear as spontaneous and leaderless, that is intentional on the part of the protest organizers…”
They might believe this because they have been escalating the whole time. In labor and community action-organizing, planning works by the method of escalation. Each step that escalates is harder to pull off, but is harder for the target to withstand. If you have accurately assessed your organizing results so far, and if the prior escalations have succeeded, then the next step stands a better chance at success.
Sharp’s malevolent legacy is a method to metabolize naive struggles into forces at the service of the American empire.
Alinsky teaches in Rules for Radicals that leading is done not by pulling, not by standing in the front, but rather by leading from behind, or leading by pushing. Most people do not want to lead, and they fear public speaking. Effective labor and community organizing tactics teach that effective leaders act like they do not want to lead, they may even feign a little discomfort and humility while speaking publicly. The mass then begins to identify very intimately with this person who ‘leads by pushing’.
Leading from Behind – Lead by Pushing |
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Kudos! Extremely clear analysis presenting the blow by blow mechanics of this infernal tool developed by the West. Conceived and implemented with the most shameless hypocrisy and cynicism, this is a logical and proper instrument of a completely hypocritical civilization. And they have that new “harmless looking” mojigato, Gene Sharp, the Mother Theresa of “just revolutions” as their patron saint. So typical of the United States, they always find the right “face” to sell whatever the hell they are selling.
A Fuenzalida
Santiago