worlds collide

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Feb 25 10:19:44 PST 2001


Chuck0 wrote:


>Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> The march itself was also an open display of pluralism. There were
>> Brazilian communists with hammer-and-sickle banners; a little group
>> of drag queens with Lurex jump suits, parasols and lights flashing on
>> their belts; anarchists on stilts dressed in black and bearing
>> banners with "Rage against the Machine" stenciled over a portrait of
>> Che.
>
>These can't be anarchists. No self-respecting anarchist would be caught
>dead carrying around a picture of Che, not to mention anything
>glorifying that mediocre Leftist band RATM.

Agreed on the mediocrity of RATM, but you could read the stencil over his portrait as identifying him as part of the raged-against machine. That would be anarchic, no?

Doug



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