Joanna
paul wrote:
>I would like to plead with everyone that they *not* consider Chuck's
>comments and opinions as being part or representative of any position
>adopted broadly by the North American anarchist movement. Those of us
>actively involved in credible anarchist organizations in North America
>by and large to not share the analysis and opinions of Chuck, and I
>would hate for people on this list to equate his faulty analysis with
>that employed by anarchists. Chuck's comments on this recent thread only
>highlight this point - I would be more inclined to agree with Joanna.
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>- paul
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>>In response to Chuck's last two (stunning as usual) posts.
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>>1. One would think, reading Chuck's posts, that the capitalists are
>>shooting themselves in the foot by letting everything fall apart, but as
>>Marilyn Waring observed ("Who Counts?") Capital makes money out of
>>destruction and waste. An ordinary person looks around and sees waste
>>(locked school playgrounds when kids need a place to play -- unheard of
>>forty years ago), war, prisons, the "need" to privatize every failing
>>service in sight, shoddy construction, shoddy work, and thinks that this
>>system is collapsing; a capitalist looks around and sees ever growing
>>sources of exploitation and making money out of nothing. The soul of
>>capitalism is destruction and when that really, really sinks in, maybe
>>we'll get somewhere.
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>>2. I was at the San Francisco airport yesterday to pick up an exchange
>>student from France. Other than the security folks and the vendors,
>>there were no airport personnel ANYWHERE at the airport. I know this
>>for a fact because I desperately needed them. There was an information
>>booth, manned by a non-functioning computer terminal. There were maps on
>>the wall, which neglected to tell you where you were and did not provide
>>sufficient information. I was too flabbergasted to get angry. The whole
>>point of the "service" economy is that of making you pay for services
>>you used to take for granted. On the one end of the conversion process
>>are the annointed ones who get the contracts and most of the money. On
>>the other end of the conversion process are the workers who either get
>>fired, outsourced, or deskilled....but who always wind up making less
>>money for the same work.
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>>Joanna
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