{"id":952,"date":"2025-03-25T18:55:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=952"},"modified":"2025-03-25T18:55:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:55:27","slug":"theres-no-justice-without-power-hamilton-nolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/theres-no-justice-without-power-hamilton-nolan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThere\u2019s no justice without power\u201d &#8211; Hamilton Nolan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cTypically the left\u2019s answers to this are \u201cprotests\u201d and \u201cpolitical advocacy\u201d and \u201cpersuasion in all of its forms.\u201d These are all great and valid techniques. But a quick glance at the state of the world tells us that they are insufficient for balancing out the power on the other side of the equation from us, which consists of all the billionaires and all the corporations and all the guns. Is there a form of direct power that we can wield, that will be effective in this radically skewed battle? Yes. It is organized labor power. That is it, my friends. That is the left\u2019s power vector. That is where our focus needs to be\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamiltonnolan.com\/p\/theres-no-justice-without-power\">https:\/\/www.hamiltonnolan.com\/p\/theres-no-justice-without-power<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTypically the left\u2019s answers to this are \u201cprotests\u201d and \u201cpolitical advocacy\u201d and \u201cpersuasion in all of its forms.\u201d These are all great and valid techniques. But a quick glance at the state of the world tells us that they are insufficient for balancing out the power on the other side of the equation from us,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}