> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck0" <chuck at mutualaid.org>
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>>And your comment about hoping that the Teamsters beat up my friends is
>>truly despicable. Blaming protesters for Bush getting elected is about
>>as ignorant as blaming Nader for Bush getting elected.
>>Thanks for confirming for me why radicals can't work with liberals on
>>the streets. If you don't beat us up, you are out there urging the cops
>>to beat us up!
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>
> Hey Chuck, it had a smiley partly because it was a bit tongue-in-cheek. But
> the point is that I said IF your actions are designed to mess with other
> activists goals, you shouldn't be surprised if you get a hostile reaction.
> You announce a "secret" plan, uncoordinated with other activists, and then
> you expect total acceptance of such tactics imposed in the middle of other
> mass actions.
>
> Anarchists by your definition are inherently anti-democratic. They are
> undemocratic internally, since they depend on secret actions and planning.
> And they are undemocratic externally, since they refuse to accept any
> responsibilities to other activists. Your kind of anarchism is all about
> individualism of the worst sort; it's all about doing what you want, when
> you want it, and screw anyone who objects.
>
> If you won't submit anything you do to a vote of fellow activists, then you
> shouldn't be surprised that the "liberals" try to stop you when your actions
> undermine theirs.
More nonsense. Anarchists are the most demoratic of political tendencies and have a solid record of working openly and democratically with other groups. If democratic processes are so important to people here, perhaps you should dicuss the anti-democratic process of ANSWER, which makes huge decisions for the anti-war movement without input from that movement. It does so without any accountability. Or take the AFL-CIO, which unilaterally decided in Miami to make agreements with the police over the objections of other activists. While anarchists have justifiable reasons for doing a few things in secret, we are more democratic, transparent, and open than other activists.
Chuck0