-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Michael Feldman <JonathanMFeldman at hotmail.com> To: marxist at egroups.com <marxist at egroups.com> Date: Monday, January 08, 2001 8:22 AM Subject: [marxist] Streetfighting Redux
>On the other hand Piven and Cloward have a theory about
>disruption (in Poor Peoples Movements) which is far more
>plausable...as opposed to "street fighting." Yet, Gary Marx's
>sociological studies of infiltration suggest that certain tactics
>lend themselves to agent provocateurs.
>
>It is interesting to read Todd Gitlin's account in The Whole World is
>Watching. Disruption seems to reflect a scarcity of resources, but Gitlin
>does not seem to explain an alternative media strategy for The New Left,
>although acknowledging the alternative in Michael T. Klare's university
>organizing approach...on SDS campuses.
>
>We read about "anarchists" in The New York Times who were active in
Seattle,
>but we don't see any resemblance to the "anarchists" that
>Noam Chomsky has written about in The New American Mandarins, or the
>anarchism of the Mondragon model. New York Times anarchism seems to
>be about creating jobs for companies that repair broken windows. In
>contrast...Did everybody see the article in The New York Times Week in
>Review section? About the cyberspoofs? Well it was hilarious! The Yes
Men,
>they were called...posing as members of the World Trade Organization! This
>is the wave of the future, not broken glass.
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