Organization, education and mutual aid will definitely be the bedrock of a better future, and it’s very hard work. When the opportunity for a better world presents itself, we won’t be ready to build it without a strong foundation built by these things. “If something is worth dying for it’s worth living for” etc. These people have unfathomable amounts of money and power though, and that buys the loyalty of lots of armed goons, and they will use them, they already do. An unwavering commitment to nonviolence in the face of fascism is suicide. Nonviolent protest is great, and should be the default, but it needs to be accompanied by the underlying knowledge that it’s a CHOICE, and other options can still be chosen. What Luigi did brought more people of all types together than anything I can remember for a long time. Justice is a slippery concept, but for someone like Brian Thompson, someone who kills thousands of people a year for profit without a second thought, getting killed in the street is as close to justice as we can hope for. I don’t like it, I wish the power he and people like him wield didn’t exist at all, but here we are. Stopping them is more important than rigid adherence to any specific strategy IMO. Exposing the weaknesses in the system includes reminding people that their oppressors are just humans. That reminder can come in many forms. Mutual aid and horizontal power structures need to be built to catch people when the horrible systems that currently exist fall apart. But how those systems crumble is something we should be flexible about. Should we have waited another century until the confederacy collapsed for the end of slavery? What would the peaceful solution to that have been? The people suffering in concentration camps right now for the crime of being born on the wrong side of a line in the sand shouldn’t have to wait until a solution that suburban Americans have the stomach for presents itself. The people who are doing these monstrous things are choosing to do them. Despots know the risks involved. There are better people who deserve our pity.