Rattling the global corporate suites in Seattle

[Russell Grinker]

I'm not sure whether people are praising this Bove character or what.  I
always thought that the relative political under-development of France was
due to the large weight of backward petit bourgeois elements (peasants) in
the country.  Seems to me that Bove is a typical example.  The Poujadiste
and lately, National Front influence in France was/is partly based on this.
The man's anti Macdonalds and WTO sentiments are not something to play along
with but rather analogous to the politics of other right wing and
nationalist anti-WTO
forces mentioned previously on this list, particularly by Het Fabel de
Illegaal.
Fascists can also use bulldozers.

Lessons to the left: don't jettison all principles every time you see a
crowd of people protesting.

Russell


>Tom Trouble wrote:
>
>>From: Scott Marshall <scott at rednet.org>
>>  >childish vandalism of a few "ninja anarchists,"
>>
>>  >Jose Bove is well known in the European Union countries. In Seattle he
>>  >became an instant hero. His celebrity grew as word spread quickly that
Jose
>>  >was the French, goat and cheese farmer who drove his tractor into the
>>  >middle of a McDonalds restaurant being built in the South of France.
>>
>>
>>Those anarchists in Seattle were childish vandals but Bove is called a
>>"hero."  Lesson to anarchists:  Bring bulldozers to the next demo.
>
>During WTO week, the meat industry was reportedly trying to circulate
>a claim that Bove was trained in Libya. And now I've just done the
>work of the meat industry by circulating that. Sorry.
>
>Doug
>