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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social

Jonathan Smucker's "Hegemony How-To" provides an interesting post-mortem of the Occupy moment, even if he's far too sanguine about economic populist messaging achieving positive results. Activism primarily as an expression of in-group identity stymies any protest. www.goodreads.com/book/show/33...

aug 24, 2025, 5:02 am • 2 0

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social

Movements absolutely need to promote a coherent group identity to help motivate and retain participants, but the mechanisms of doing so can sometimes be counterproductive to bringing in new participants. Too often, this dynamic is not only ignored by activists, but, perversely, relished.

aug 24, 2025, 5:09 am • 1 0 • view