People often say, Riots aren't revolutions. That's true. The vast majority of riots never become revolutionary. On the other hand, show me the revolution that started without a riot.

I'm trying to mediate between individual agency and structural determination. I accept that people make individual choices, quite thoughtful, quite careful, quite difficult choices, but they don't make them without constraints that shape what choices are possible and provide the intensity of the push toward choosing.

My point is that the alienation of theory and practice, intellectual and manual labor, is a real issue, but it's the outcome of social domination it's sort of a mistake to blame it on the subjects of that domination.