> Isn't the more important group to persuade the white workers, not the
white middle class ? The vast majority of the population is working class,
not middle class .
White workers at the present time don't affect legislation. Of course
persuade them and build a bloc; but without even tacit support of the white
middle class, or ruling class, if you prefer, forget about getting
reparations -- unless we're on the verge of a working-class revolution where
reparations won't be needed because socialism will take care of the economic
and racial imbalances, etc. Judging from your posts, it seems you find this
a distinct possibility.
>
> What is the current media terrain ?
Perhaps instead of shooting your TV you should turn it on and see for yourself.
>First point above is that there are plenty of examples of workers in
struggle making physical attacks on private property in their protests, so
why shouldn't the students follow this working class example. Seems like a
very good symbolic act, attacking private property.
Why not a Days of Rage through suburbia, then? Pour gasoline on the manicured lawns of white homeowners and flame them up! That's a *real* symbolic act.
>Ever hear of the Boston Tea Party ?
Yes. That was done in a revolutionary period.
> Also, as to written words themselves Marx and Malcolm were more
discriminating than you. Some written words are valuable, some written words
are worthless. Radicals don't lump all written words together in some sacred
category.
Neither do I. It's just that I don't rip up or burn those written words I find worthless. Did Marx advocate that?
>Why should radicals confine themselves to a bourgeois legal principle ? And
why are you relying on the bourgeois courts ?
I guess Kunstler wasted his life.
>Seems to me that a clown attacking reparations is the one you want to argue
with in public , since a clown is likely to make the worst arguments against
reparations and so will be defeated handily in the public debate.
>
> The opposite of what you say is good tactics. We want to make Horowitz ,
the clown, the posterboy of the anti-reparations crowd
You got him. And look at the result.
DP