Leaderless decentralized protest allows cops to join freely

Evidence

In addition to an increasingly right-wing orientation, they were something like the polar opposite of a Leninist movement. The Telegram groups had a “poll” function, which allowed for ad hoc voting on tactics—then people did what they liked. And while the Russian revolutionary leader was obsessed with discipline and secrecy, anyone in Hong Kong, including cops, could just walk up to the Lennon Walls and join these groups too. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 755

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Local protest movements can aggregate into a national politics without top-down coordination — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 620; Leaderless movements that cede representation get represented by opponents — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 443; Digital protest crowds behave like swarms that cannot be organized durably — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 343 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Local protest movements can aggregate into a national politics without top-down coordination #expands (0.85) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 620
• Digital protest crowds behave like swarms that cannot be organized durably #expands (0.85) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 343
• Decentralized pursuit of non-domination breeds accumulating petty despotisms, not freedom #complicates (0.85) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 456
• Leaderless movements that cede representation get represented by opponents #qualifies (0.80) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 443
• Post-2008 protest mutated elite-mass management without shifting power. #qualifies (0.80) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 25