the thing is with riots is that particularly when they kick off in poorer areas they end up destroying the wrong peoples infrastructure and lives (its local businesses and local peoples cars that usually end up being torched)
Not everyone has the full insurance for these things, and then for those who do their premiums get increased as the area is classed as “violent”
then the authorities after they have “restored order” just leave people to live in the ashes of their communities and the criminals/violent people are the only ones who win..
this is what happened in London when I was younger, South London (where I was born and brought up and where many riots happened in the 70s and 80s) isn’t exactly a socialist utopian paradise today.
In foreign countries where the “left wing” people “stand up for themsevles” more (France and Italy are often quoted as examples) there is a harsher resistance from the right – as well as Police there are Gendarmes and other armed paramilitaries, as well as right-wing groups fighting back against squatters, often even with firearms and IEDs!
The only way to get away from the system a bit in Britain is to create self-sufficient communities of your own, but that involves a bit more discipline and hard work.
Its not so much what the system makes you do but stuff like the graft involved in pooling resources and sharing effort fairly – constructing buildings and growing food etc.
A lot of people although they claim to be “alternative” just don’t want to put in this collective effort – particularly when they can still just work in a call centre or insurance company, or when drugs provide an easy (if temporary) escape.
