But this was not _my_ criticism. I am not qualified to be a critic of political tactics, for one thing. My uninformed guess is that there is no objective evidence whatever that the students are "playing into the hands of the Right"; I think it is probable that by drawing attention to David Horowitz's clown show, and especially to its race-baiting and racism-provoking aspects, they have drawn attention to the issue of reparations in general and made its opponents look bad by associating them with Horowitz, which seems to be what they want to do. As far as I know, their liberal critics here have not presented a shred of evidence to back up their assertions that the students' activities were counter- productive; it's been all talk. But in any case the selection of tactics is something for the people actually engaged in literal, concrete struggle to decide upon, not a guy writing theory on a mailing list.
I'm asking people to look down the road and see if it's the one they want to take, based on my idea of where it leads. I think use of force, justified or not, home-grown or through the State, American or French, may be of very limited value; may, in fact, give us more of the same at a high price. My criticism is from the Left, not the Right.