It’s been shown that peaceful protests and electoralism are no match for lobbying AKA bribery. And since big social movements have been thoroughly wrecked or defanged it feels like isolated individual acts are the only open avenue at the moment. This single direct act appears to have triggered some adjustments such as Anthem backing off from their anaesthesia cap. This will likely be temporary, once the ghouls get their bearings and feel safe again. Unfortunately a CEO is basically an obscenely paid functionary, removing one here and there does not actually threaten the system as a whole. So the best lone vigilantism can accomplish is “propaganda of the deed” where large numbers of people are spurred to organize and fight on a more long-term, large scale basis. So far people are talking, including people who don’t agree about much, and that’s encouraging. But if this doesn’t translate into organized action, even on a modest scale to start with, such as the creation/ expansion of mutual aid networks, militant unionizing, etc, if the conversation remains fixated on the spectacle of the lone assassin-hero, and people wait around for the next one, then I don’t think it will accomplish anything in the long run.
