Charles Brown wrote:
> I'm with you, sister. We have got to figure out some criminal punishments for the big bourgeoisie.
Come on Charles -- you can't be this naive. The big bourgeoisie inflicting criminal punishments on the big bourgeoisie? If "we" (and just who is your "we" here had half enough power to inflict such punishments we wouldn't need to because we would already have socialism and there would be no big bourgeoisie to punish.
Now on the other hand, if you keep fantasies of actually punishing corporations and their owners out of it, I can imagine (under the right circumstances) mass campaigns to punish corporate murder with corporate death (not of individuals, of the corporation itself) being an effective organizing tool. E.g., imagine thousands of persons going door to door with a petition demanding the execution of General Motors, all armed with a reasonable amount of detail as to GM crimes. Ditto Walmart. The important thing would be the person-to-person contact between the circulator of the petition and the people visited, and perhaps even more important, the process the circulators go through among themselves to work out the goals and methods of the campaign.
But as to actually daydreaming about punishing the CEO of GM or ATT. Forget it.
Also, please note that while many of us as marxists wear two hats, marxists and class militants, there are and always will be far too few marxists to go around for such activities, so they will be for the most part initiated, organized, and carried out by non-marxists. This is the Leninist theory of the priority of spontaneous action, creating the context in which the struggle against the theory of revolutionary spontaneity can be carried out. No Father Gopans, no Lenins, Trotskys, or Maos.
Carrol