March 2013 crowds rejected the left parties that had built the protest
Evidence
A few blocks over, a member of the Landless Workers’ Movement, the famous MST, made his own retreat. He stopped to speak with Piero Locatelli. “We lost. We lost. It’s all over. All we can do is leave.” — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 430
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A protest movement managed street chaos and blame while refusing state co-optation — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 371; 2010s leftists faced demobilized civil society instead of mass parties — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 17; The 2010s mass protest wave achieved opposite results to protesters’ demands — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 20 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Mass protest’s outcomes rarely matched participants’ goals
#exemplifies(0.85) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 42 - The 2010s mass protest wave achieved opposite results to protesters’ demands
#exemplifies(0.82) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 20 - Large protest events repeatedly fail to produce lasting political change
#exemplifies(0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1952 - Right-wing groups hijacked the 2013 protest repertoire with elite funding
#corroborates(0.78) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 553 - 2010s leftists faced demobilized civil society instead of mass parties
#qualifies(0.72) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 17