a critique of the march on Sandton

[Gordon Fitch]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> >I don't think the only two paths open are 1) burning down convention 
> >centers or 2) listening to blowhards drone on. No one burned anything 
> >down in Seattle. A few windows were broken, which is more than fine with 
> >me, but no one thought to castrate the Space Needle.

Joe R. Golowka:
> So, should people in Argentina stop burning banks down?

It depends on what it accomplishes, materially speaking.  I
think there's a considerable danger that burning banks and
the like may become fetishized, since they're sort of
exciting and enjoyable in themselves.  What do you do for an
encore?

-- Gordon