[lbo-talk] JDK runs on FreeBSD!!!

[Michael Dawson]

It was me who said we won't shop our way to a better world.  And what I
meant was that isolated individuals and even occasional boycotters will
never possess the power to veto capitalism through the retail outlet.

I disagree with Carrol about his claim that shopping carries no inherent
politics.  It does, but it's simply a futile and massively indirect politics
that isn't worth pursuing.

But I even more disagree with people who spend huge amounts of time using
one kind of software or another because they think it is politically
radical.  It's a gesture, at most.  And, as bad and theft-based as Microsoft
is, we'd be very much better off if it, rather than the oil-auto-suburbs
nexus were the main corporate enemy.  Microsoft is a warm bunny compared to
those fucking killers.

-----Original Message-----
From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
On Behalf Of Carrol Cox
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 6:01 PM
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] JDK runs on FreeBSD!!!

Someone spoke in opposition to shopping politics (or something like 
that), and someone else replied that the software at issue was free, so 
no shopping was involved.

I neither shop NOR consume (free or unfree) for political reasons except 
in the case of organized boycotts. My consumption as well as shopping is 
based on personal convenience alone.

Politics, for me, is coextensive with organizing collective action. 
Private shopping or consumption decisions have nothing to do with 
oganizing collective action, hence no political principle is involved.

Carrol

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