an observation: there are entire traditions of political thought, and theories of action to accompany them, that developed in periods of defeat and under conditions of sometimes total domination. these will be useful guides now.
I really wish white people would understand that they should be turning to black, Asian, Latino, indigenous scholarship and writing because those are the communities and intellectuals that have been dealing with the hardcore realities of racism and capitalism
antonio gramsci's entire project can be understood this way. james c. scott's *domination & the arts of resistance*; saidiya hartman's gorgeous work (which cites scott prominently); spivak re: speech; guha on domination; almost all non-bourgeois feminist thought; hobsbawm on peasant insurgency, etc