What is NOT particularly helpful with regard to Ferguson

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25. Not just a liberal perspective, but from a Trotskyist perspective.....

(or rather this particular Trotskyist interpretation of Marxist thought on these issues) riots have no real purpose in overthrowing capitalism. Neither does assassinations of government figures. These types of action, although understandable, do nothing to advance the cause of the overthrow of the system. Capitalism just replaces one actor with another and the system keeps on going.

The difference is that a Bolshevik has empathy for the feelings of the rioters. As I said in the first paragraph, THE FEELINGS ARE UNDERSTANDABLE, but the Bolshevik's job is to connect the dots between what happens in the special oppression part of capitalism and the REASON that special oppression happens. Then to show that the only solution that will be permanent is to replace capitalism with a socialist state.

But the anger at the oppression is understandable even if the actions that result from that anger doesn't and will never have the ability to get at the root cause of that oppression.