And while the hyper-violent "rivers of blood" framing may be useful for some - I thoroughly refuse the "sad" positioning as I'd much rather build toward happiness in the ideal of "If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution"

I'm reminded of the old saying from the days of the AIDS crisis, when Reagan decided HIV was God's solution to homosexuality and researching a cure went against His will - bury your friends in the morning, protest in the afternoon, and dance all night.

Which does kind of put things into perspective.

And as to the OP's article - I got to the part where it said "Solidarity is a learned behavior" and was like, okay, yes, this is what prefigurative politics is for. You go out and do stuff together so you can learn to do stuff together so you can do bigger and more important stuff together.

But the article seems to use "prefigurative" to refer to slacktivism and online shitposting and political discussion that serves as virtue signaling rather than a goad to concrete action and so on.

Edit: I do think the article makes half of a good point. If we want to make a change we have to put in the work, go out, work with people, get our hands dirty. I'm not so sure about the sadness and the rivers of blood. I suspect that's counterproductive.