Question :
The economy of Syria is collapsed, yet Bashar remains in power. Doesn’t this disprove the strategy theory that targeting multinational corporations is an effective method for revolution?
Answer :
‘The economy of Syria was destroyed and Bashar is still there, so targeting multinational corporations doesn’t work ‘ is a bit like saying attacking a pregnant woman with an ax doesn’t successfully deliver a healthy baby so C-Section surgery must not work as a method for child birth.
The tactic of corporate disruption was never attempted in Syria.
The economy has been destroyed by conventional warfare, and you can expect multinationals and investors to reap the benefits of reconstruction.
The strategy I advocate has nothing to do with causing economic collapse. It is either ignorance or deliberate distortion to present the strategy in this way.
If anything, what you can learn from Syria is that the traditional methods do not work.
The methods I recommend were never tried, so there is no lesson from Syria in this regard.
Syria, anyway, was unique insofar as it had been largely resistant to neoliberalism prior to the war.
As I have always said, strategy must be determined according to the particular circumstances and geopolitical realities of any place.
It is possible that system disruption would not have worked in Syria because it was not integrated enough into the global economic system, but we will never know