On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> I think one can have a bigger influence on US domestic policies by
> deliberately avoiding buying US products or spending one's money overseas
> than an army or earnest fools who organize a signature drive to petition the
> US government. Money talks, bullshit walks. If you want to change the US
> polity, make the US economy scream. And for the first time in the post
> World War II history - the world is in a position to actually do that. This
> should be the map and the compass of any serious progressive effort in this
> country - everything else is crutch-walking.
>
> Wojtek
>
So--buying Chinese made plastic shit at Wal-mart is guerilla warfare? Isn't this kind of like the logic of the "buy nothing" crowd: consumer choice as a substitute for meaningful political action?
(I missed you too, Woj!)
Miles