Interesting arguments. I think a key issue here is actually that BLM is a decentralized movement. I mean think about how things work here on HIVE and all the different perspectives in our community. We disagree over things as fundamental as whether there should be downvoting allowed, whether we should upvote our own content, bidbots, etc. Yet who gets to speak for HIVE? Any of us who say we do, right?

Similarly in BLM there is all that you say. However, there is absolutely also a call to defund the police and the platform that I think we would call most "official" is focused primarily on taking money away from the police. It is not socialist. It does not want to expand the state, but rather move the money away from the state.

I haven't heard anything that moves into the taxation arena. I don't think that's a part of the BLM platform one way or the other, not increasing or decreasing taxes. But where I think you and I really disagree is on the idea of incremntalism.

I do think that every step of removing power from institutions like the police is massive progress. You get people realizing experientially that things can work better with less money going to the government (which I firmly believe would be the case) and it opens their minds to more ideas about defunding government. Already the "defund the police" call is morphing into "defund the military." And the fact that powerful players are now feeling they have no choice but to get behind it (not because they want to or think it benefits them, I can assure you) just means that this is a battle we are likely to win!

In contrast, I just don't see getting the popular support at levels needed to make change actually happen with an all-or-nothing approach.

I'll take a look at your piece you linked to now.