state & markets

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Dec 17 15:23:47 PST 1999



>From Angela to Nathan:
>what in particular is bullshit: a) that this coalition you keep talking
>about is mythical; b) that such a coalition, as you have outlined it, only
>makes sense as a lever in domestic elections and WTO adjuncts; c) that your
>discourse all along has been to draw distinctions between 'those proper
>democratic representatives of the masses' and 'those who refuse to play by
>the agreed upon rules'; d) all of the above?

OK, Angela, I disagree with Nathan, too, but what do you say to Max or Wojtek?


>From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky)
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: RE: Groundhog's Day
>Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:00:12 -0500
>
>. . . It's time to put those people who weren't on the streets (literally
>or spiritually) on notice: you're not going to ape solidarity with us in
>order to get a better bargaining position down the line. As one demonstrator
>in Seattle told me: "Tell that Carl Pope and John Sweeney this: either
>you're with us or get the fuck out of our way."--jsc
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>I feel for you and them, but nobody has remarked on the
>dilemma of a movement that is not able to garner credit
>for what it does, or whose efforts inherently lend
>themselves to others gaining and using the leverage
>they may create.
>
>That's anarchism. It's implied vacuum in collective
>decision-making is readily filled by others, for good
>or for ill.
>
>mbs

Yoshie



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