Note Details
- Stage: seed 🌱
- Type: book
- Author: Micah White
- Topics: activism, revolution, social-movements
A manifesto from the co-creator of Occupy Wall Street arguing that traditional protest is broken and proposing new paradigms for revolutionary change.
The End of Protest - A New Playbook for Revolution
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/034581004X
The End of Protest by Micah White, co-creator of the Occupy Wall Street movement, offers a candid assessment of why contemporary activism has failed to achieve lasting systemic change. Drawing on his firsthand experience with Occupy and the history of social movements, White argues that marching, rallying, and petitioning have become rituals that governments have learned to absorb and neutralize.
Rather than abandoning the project of revolution, White proposes a new playbook: one that integrates spiritual transformation, electoral strategy, and the creation of new forms of sovereignty. He identifies several paradigms of protest — voluntarism, structuralism, subjectivism, and theurgism — and argues that the future of activism lies in combining inner transformation with outer action, moving beyond the limits of what he calls “clicktivism” and performative dissent.