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Invisible Weapons - Infiltrating Resistance and Defeating Movements (Paperback)
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Invisible Weapons - Infiltrating Resistance and Defeating Movements (Paperback)
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Radicalism is an inclusive political tradition that lives on in the
Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). Key radical principles include
empowering people to advocate for themselves and their communities,
the idea that power must embrace accountability, and a
transformative interpretation of justice and change. Everyone is
not a radical any more than everyone supports the M4BL. And yet,
some people claim to support the M4BL while rejecting radical
movement principles and often practicing deeply anti-radical
politics. In Invisible Weapons, Marcus Board Jr. wrestles with
these contradictions and reveals the key political stumbling blocks
posed by government powerbrokers-from elected officials to
welfare-bureaucrats-in the face of radical political movements.
Board shows how neoliberalism is synonymous with anti-radicalism
and uses invisible weapons that stop oppressed people from
advocating for their own needs and grievances. Board argues that
the insidious power of co-optation is transforming participation in
mass social movements, potentially rendering active resistance
ineffective. To support his argument, he looks at long-term
unemployed Black welfare recipients in Chicago, original survey
data, and case studies of police shootings in Baltimore and New
York. At the center of Invisible Weapons are the seemingly
conflicting responses to the 2015 Baltimore City police murder of
Freddie Gray Jr. and the 2016 neglectful non-response to the
Baltimore County police murder of Korryn Gaines. Beyond geography
and personal histories, Board shows that Gray and Gaines are also
deeply connected by the myriad systemic failures that shaped their
lives. And the aftermath of their deaths further reveals the ways
that oppressed masses are being silenced by the state under a veil
of anti-radicalism. Invisible Weapons teaches us how state
co-optation of social movements like the M4BL is stealing power
from people. This happens both in revolts like the Baltimore
Uprising, when people are consciously resisting, and in cases
memorialized by countless #SayHerName campaigns, when the masses
are conspicuously absent. Neoliberalism and its proponents are
creating an anti-democratic political landscape by convincing
people falsely that radicalism has no place in U.S. politics. But
strategies of non-violence, equality, and cooperation alone are
insufficient means to regain this lost power and to stop lives from
being destroyed. Grassroots resistance must also return to
radicalism, remaining inclusive while also rejecting co-optation
politics, embracing political and community self-defense, and
recommitting to abolition.
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