Recuperation is the name of the game.

It would be foolish of course to doubt both the ability and willingness of the modern state to crush any form of rebellion by brute force if it feels the need. When push coming to shove becomes more than a pat expression and is an actual reality on the street, when that happens the full repertoire of repression from batons to tanks is available on request. It was ever thus. But the true achievement of modern capitalism is that as the number and diversity of challenges to authority has increased so to has the states talent for controlling us without putting tanks on the streets. Time after time we see how the system is able to absorb our dissent, commodify it and sell it back to us. This was a lesson learn the hard way by the Women's Movement as many women comrades will attest. It is also a lesson about to be learnt by the Greens as well.