IMF/WB overhaul; US tax breaks violate trade rules; post-N30 middle class anarchists

[Ken Hanly]

I may be a bit dense but I fail to see the point in destroying fifty used TV
sets or destroying Microsoft products. This does nothing to destroy the system.
People who can barely afford a used TV are not likely to be converted into
anarchists by such acts. The Luddites made sense, but the people who destroy
the TV's probably go back to their computers to announce their activity on the
web. Would the destruction of microsoft products etc.  involve destruction of
their own computers and renunciation of web communication etc.? A sort of
anarcho-asceticism?

   Cheers, Ken Hanly

Michael Pugliese wrote:


> John Gulick commenting on the Seattle Weekly piece on post-WTO organizing,
> which I thought was very revealing too...
>
> >...(unless they "sell out" and go to work for Microsoft...
>
> Sign I saw on Muni bus last night, "You could spend the rest of your life
> changing the world. Or you could get a job at Microsoft!" Who is Microsucks
> ad agency? The same as the one that had the acct. for CBS Records in the
> 60's that had the campaign, "The Revolution is on CBS Records!, " and, "The
> Man Can't Buy Our Music!"
>    Where Do You Want To Go Today?
>    How about smashing some Microsoft products like the anarcho group at UC,
> Berkeley that smashes used TV sets once a year. Last year they smashed at
> least 50.
>                        Michael Pugliese
> "Smash It Up, Smash It Up!" Line from The Damned circa late 70's punk song