Your ideology is worth jack shit if you refuse to understand that someone who paid a mortgage for 30 years, or someone who slaved for 30 years to eke out a living from their mom & pop corner shop, or someone who is paying off a hefty loan on their car is NEVER going to be convinced of the "correctness" of your "direct action" if this consists of you rampaging down their street and destroying all the things they worked so hard for.

They're not going to be convinced by your clever arguments about how the system has been exploiting them. All they will know is that they somehow managed to keep their head above water, despite the system being as bad as it is, and then YOU came along and destroyed it all. And even though they should hate the system for making their life so fragile, they will hate YOU for destroying what little they had.

When peaceful, symbolic protests fail to change the behaviour of the ruling classes, direct action is the only avenue left.

But BE SMART. Direct action must impact the people whose behaviour you are trying to change most, and the people whose support you're trying to get least.

A riot may feel like "direct action" but with every street you tear up, with every car you light on fire, with every window you smash and with every small shop you loot, you lose the support you need.

Be better, be smarter. How? That will need minds smarter than mine to figure out.