For folks wanting further reading on a similar vein to this Peter Gelderloos book "How nonviolence protects the state" goes into further detail about what he thinks is and isn't effective protests. Given the title of the book you can assume he takes quite an extreme approach but makes a good argument I feel. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state