How to Raise the Social Costs to the Power Elite Re: the case against the case against "regime change" in Iraq

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Fri Nov 8 16:37:04 PST 2002


Yoshie Furuhashi:
> ...
> So, the question is how best to raise the social costs to the power
> elite, especially how best to make the anti-war movement rapidly grow
> _much larger and more militant_.

If one is going to modify the behavior of another by exacting costs on the other, one must be sure to do so in such a way as to cost oneself much less than one costs the other, so that one can sustain the campaign for as long as necessary. That implies that the anti-war movements must be intelligent, as well as large and militant, and be clever about when, how and where they commit their resources to the struggle, especially given that these resources are rather limited at the present time. The early Civil Rights movement may be a better example for contemporary anti-warriors than the anti-Vietnam- War movement. It was certainly more effective.

-- Gordon



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