> Nathan Newman wrote:
>
>> And accomplishing what? Drug gangs have recruited more people than the
>> anarchists with their attractive, riske illegal actions, so I guess they
>> are far more important than anyone else?
>
> Nathan: You are a liberal Democrat and you just don't like our tactics or
> politics.
Depends on what liberal means, now doesn't it? Do I actually want fundamental change, rather than preening and talking about it loudly, well then I'm a liberal. But actually caring about getting results is just an argument about methods, not end goals. Many people I may share such incremental tactics with have different endpoints on where they want the change to stop, so that label only gets you so much.
> I'm not going to respond to every rehashed, knee jerk attack on the black
> bloc. Several of you have scolded me for not doing research--I'm going to
> scold you guys for not bothering to read what black bloc anarchists have
> said in their own words.
Who cares what they say? The whole point is action, not words, I thought? And the fact that folks on this list, with your constant haranging, don't apparently know what the hell the black bloc is saying is a pretty good sign of the collective indifference of the broader population to their theory.
Which demonstrates all by itself why the Black Bloc tactics are such a failure.
Nathan Newman