If you were an activist for leftism, and you wanted to create massive changes in society, which of the following strategies do you think would be most effective:
Properly identify yourself as an activist and then operate in the formal capacity of an activist at all times such that everyone can easily understand your intentions.
Seek out positions of influence and authority within established institutions and then bend them towards enforcing your ideology, always maintaining plausible deniability under your official job title so that no one can call you out for being an activist pretending at another profession.
Why would you ever choose option one? Why does anyone imagine that loads of people haven’t chosen option two?
I like to use thought experiments.
If you were an activist for leftism, and you wanted to create massive changes in society, which of the following strategies do you think would be most effective:
Properly identify yourself as an activist and then operate in the formal capacity of an activist at all times such that everyone can easily understand your intentions.
Seek out positions of influence and authority within established institutions and then bend them towards enforcing your ideology, always maintaining plausible deniability under your official job title so that no one can call you out for being an activist pretending at another profession.
Why would you ever choose option one? Why does anyone imagine that loads of people haven’t chosen option two?
Good point