@HeliosPi @plexus Joyful Militancy is one of the books that came to mind for me too. I found the description of 'rigid radicalism' in it particularly useful. Especially when understood in the context of doing the relational work required to ensure that "we will not cancel us" . Together these two concepts highlight the importance of recognising, and refusing to be divided by, teardown-responses while building alternatives that seed better futures in the cracks of our present oppressive systems, An additional thought I had while reading this thread was that there are lots of different reasons people choose to complain about the status-quo while tearing down potential alternatives, including various combinations of: - discomfort at being reminded that there are things that we can do to alleviate suffering and aren't - rigid expectations of a one-right-way to solve the sufferings we are most directly concerned with. - assumptions that there is 'no viable alternative' unless it is possible to solve every aspect of the dominant systems all at once. - a desire to fit into a subculture while experiencing the outrage cycle of identity-puberty - ... See: - an except on rigid radicalism from Joyful Militancy by @joyfulcarla and Nick Montgomery: https://www.cawshinythings.com/the-stifling-air-of-rigid-radicalism/ - a review of 'We Will Not Cancel Us' by adrianne maree brown https://commonslibrary.org/book-review-we-will-not-cancel-us/