The Labor Network for Sustainability issued a report January 1st titled Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action. The report, authored by labor historian and LNS co-founder and senior strategic advisor Jeremy Brecher, says:
“There is a movement emerging in response to the MAGA threat. But is it even possible for this emerging movement to develop the power it will need to counter a Trump tyranny?
“Gandhi once wrote, ‘Even the most powerful cannot rule without the cooperation of the ruled.’ A Trump tyranny will not be able to continue without the support and acquiescence of those whose lives and future it is destroying. It will only be able to pursue its destructive course if they enable or acquiesce in it. A movement can overcome the most powerful regime if it can withdraw that cooperation.
“But how can that power be concretely realized? There are several ways that resistance to Trump’s MAGA regime can exercise significant power:
- Constituent power: the ability of a mobilized electorate to influence leaders whose own power depends on election.
- Protest power: the ability of masses of people to demonstrate the large numbers and willingness to act of those who share their views.
- Disruptive power: the ability to exact costs on powerful institutions by disrupting their functioning through civil disobedience, strikes, and other forms of direct action.
- Social strikes: the mobilization of an entire society to withdraw support from a regime in order to bring it to an end through a nonviolent uprising or ‘people power’.”
For full report: https://labor4sustainability.org/files/MAGATyranny.pdf