Street protest evacuates rather than supplants the organized workplace struggle the left once waged

Evidence

Rather than mount assaults in the workplace, however, the left-wing struggle moved to the streets and the square, whose cobblestones were said in 1968 to hide a beach. Underneath those cobblestones, however, there was always something else, as Ralph Miliband pointed out—the sewer. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 156

Categorization

• SEED: A possible essay angle: the 1968 slogan ‘under the paving stones, the beach’ and its anti-climax — what Miliband’s sewer retort implies about the limits of movementism as a substitute for workplace organizing today.
• XREF: connects to: Street-based anti-capitalist protest fails because it abandons the workplace where politics meets daily life. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1683; Left protest shifted from workplace to spectacle because it lacked embedded organizations. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 156; Modern protest movements are transient swarms held together by stimuli, not durable organizations — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 229 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Left protest shifted from workplace to spectacle because it lacked embedded organizations. #corroborates (0.90) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 156
• Modern protest movements are transient swarms held together by stimuli, not durable organizations #corroborates (0.80) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 229
• The SDS sustained protest awaiting a worker-borne revolution #qualifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2655
• Anti-capitalist protest becomes carnivalesque background noise without an alternative model #complicates (0.75) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 32
• Oppositional workers’ organizations mirror capitalist structure and thereby absorb class struggle #complicates (0.75)