Protesters expend all energy battling police servants rather than the masters they serve

Evidence

If we are involved in fighting the police — either literally or at some other level — then the police are playing their role as ideological enforcers. Which isn’t to say, I must emphasise, that we should ignore police brutality and corruption. What happened to Alfie Meadows and others is appalling, and needs to be exposed. But we have to remember that the police aren’t the enemy, they are the servants of the enemy, and if all of our energy is taken up struggling against them, then they are doing their job for their masters very effectively. Ultimately, it must be far better if the servants are turned against their masters. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2213

Categorization

• XREF: A tactical view of police as ‘servants of the enemy’ resonates with the ‘servants turned against masters’ dynamic in The Wire and with strike-as-tactic debates. — connects to: Police violence against protest organizers turned leadership figures into martyrs — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 368

Broader Connections

• Police violence against protest organizers turned leadership figures into martyrs #expands (0.74) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 368