> "Batman, for all his shrouded mystery, is just a cop whose role is to
> protect the entrenched power structure--which not incidentally includes
> protecting Bruce Wayne's fortune from so-called 'criminals' who might want
> to redistribute the wealth. When Catwoman Michelle Pfeiffer finds a woman
> being raped in a dark alley, she dispenses with the rapist, then looks
> contemptuously at the woman and says: 'What were you waiting for? Batman to
> come along and rescue you?' Women need not appeal to cops and other men in
> power to rescue them from domestic violence and rape; they should seize
> power for themselves. And contrary to the Batman Returns message, power
> doesn't mean dressing up in a cat costume. It means joining a revolutionary
> party to overthrow the imperialist patriarchy."
>
> How wrong I was to have backed for so long the "cat costume" theory of power
> acquisition!
If I can't wear a cat costume, I want no part of your revolution.
;-p
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INTERNATIONALISM IN PRACTICE
An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said, "I was told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese was to shout ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ If he shoots, he’s unfriendly. So I saw this dude and yelled ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ and he yelled back, ‘To hell with President Johnson!’ We were shaking hands when a truck hit us."
(from 1,001 Ways to Beat the Draft, by Tuli Kupferburg).