So Long Saddam

[Chuck Munson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> Nathan Newman wrote:
> 
> >How about we take all the time of those who prepare for the rally, attend the
> >demo, and the time many spend in jail and doing work getting them out--
> >instead, skip the demo and spend the same amount of time door-knocking to
> >talk to folks about why war is a bad idea and global justice is a far better
> >approach to assuring global security.
> 
> ...and in the interim, vote for Democrats who'll support the war.
> Demos, as opposed to mere Dems, can scare the ruling class if they're
> big enough. Demos brought down a few regimes in Argentina (not that
> the US government is as weak as Argentina's, of course). Large demos
> made the Vietnam war much more of a political problem than it would
> have been otherwise. Why the either/or approach, anyway?

Indeed, I hate symbolic rallies as much as the next anarchist and I live
in a city that has too many of them. Still, if a bunch of people want to
get in the streets and say that they oppose another war against the Iraqi
people, I say more power to them. I think we need education, symbolic
protest, and direct destruction of the U.S. military machine.

Pick whatever tactic is comfortable to you. But as Doug points out, don't
participate in electoral bullshit. The Democrats and Republicans are
united in their class interests on these issues.

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