----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck0" <chuck at mutualaid.org>
> Joanna Bujes writes:
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>>Mass politics is dirty. You get your hands dirty. You become
>>involved in a struggle for power. Power is dirty, and you must
>>not touch. If you are part of a privileged stratum, your power
>>is invisible to you. You tell yourself that you speak softly
>>because you have class/wisdom. In fact, you can speak softly
>>because everyone around you is trained to listen to you. To
>>acknowledge that you have any power is to acknowledge that,
>>on some level, you are part of the problem, you are at least
>>complicit with the oppressors. "Resistance" is political action
>>that refuses the possibility/desire of taking power. It bestows the
>>great gifts of "innocence" and "self-righteousness." What more
>>could any comfortable, middle-class leftist ask for?
What kind of power are you talking about? State power?
Dissidents need to stay away from state power.
http://www.infoshop.org/faq/secHcon.html
Chuck0
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But, of course, you would say that precisely because you are a comfortable middle class leftist bestowed with great gifts! :-)
Tautologies, anyone? No? Perhaps question-begging then.........
Ian