will 'the war' lead to quietism?

Chuck0 chuck at tao.ca
Thu Nov 1 20:59:55 PST 2001


Kelley wrote:
>
> At 10:04 PM 11/1/01 -0500, Chuck0 wrote:
> >The corporate media seems very interested right now in casting the
> >anti-globalization movement as having entered a dormant stage.
>
> let them. disinfo. as you said last night, gotta think differently.

Yeah, I think you are right. Most of the folks in the anti-capitalist movement don't read these articles and op-eds anyway, at least that's my suspicion.

Chomsky, as usual, has written some interesting stuff about this. I think we can count on the business press to continue to cover the anti-glob/anti-capitalist movements accurately. After all, the ruling class needs to know what is really going on.

This disinformation does work in our favor, because it once again clouds the ability of the authorities to know what is really going on. The ruling class and the authorities are also very distracted by the "war." This opens new spaces for opposition and resistance, not just in the U.S., but in many other countries.

For example, the authorities here never figured out last month that the anarchists were quietly squatting an abandoned school (know to the squatters as the 'God Squat').

There is still a chorus of Left boys crying wolf about the possibility of increased repression of activists by the state. This is a real possibility, but the things they cry about are things they have long been telling us were already in place. If activists listen to these wolves, we will be stuck doing nothing, when we forget that we have the numbers.

Ack, I'm rambling...

Recommended essay: After Genoa, Reform or Revolution? Max Kolskegg http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/10/1625235&mode=nested&threshold=

Chuck0



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