> Which is an interesting point. Cops often use agents provocateurs who
> promote sabotage - or do the work themselves. They do this in part
> because they know it discredits movements among a larger public (which
> either doesn't exist or doesn't matter, I forget which, in CoxWorld).
This is a baseless argument commonly used by liberals and other wankers in the anti-glob movement to marginalize anyone who advocates tactics more militant that holding up a banner at some rally. This argument was trotted out frequently after Seattle and it always falls on its face. Sabotage and property destruction does not piss off the public. There was no hue and cry after Seattle by the public about the property destruction. We can still march down the street with nary a protest from the public.
Perhaps this is an example of how badly the left is out fo touch with working people. As we've seen in recent strikes by telecommunications workers, the amount of sabotage has far outpaced anything the black bloc has done on a nice afternoon. And labor strikes are routinely violent--Charleston 5 anyone?
What alienates the public is shit like 9-11.
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