[fla-left] [direct action] Vandals Ruin Crops at UC-Berkeley Genetic Research Center (fwd)

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>forwarded by Michael Hoover
>
>> Vandals Ruin Crops at UC-Berkeley Genetic Research Center
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>>
>> In an anonymous communique, the group Reclaim the Seeds
>> called the research center a "monstrous labyrinth" and took
>> credit for this week's break-in. "We believe that with enough
>> preparation, luck and a few tools of the trade, the powers of
>> darkness cannot keep us out of their greenhouses and labs," the
>> communique states. "Ultimately, our fear of a dead
>> planet is greater than our fear of state [and] corporate repression."
>>
This is an incredibly annoying quote, not just for the hideous grammatical
error but for the "correction" made by the UC newspaper.  What is that [and]
doing there?  Clearly the intent in the communique is to equate the
"private" economy with the state.  The "correction" assumes that capitalism
is organized around a free market, while the state merely keeps things
within certain bounds of decency.  Of course the state is the brain of the
whole operation, just as it was during the formative years of the British
Empire.  Capitalism is "state corporate repression."

Ted