>Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> Tom Walker wrote:
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>> >Nothing -- short of sustained, mass civil disobedience -- will
>> >alter this political equation.
>>
>> Disobedience of what laws, by whom, where, when?
>>
>
>These are precisely the questions that cannot be answered in advance.
>Tom rightly cites Sheehan's Camp Casey -- which isn't quite illegal. And
>his reference to consumption decisions is _truly_ not the kind of
>consumption politics that I have attacked in the past. All his
>suggestions point towards, are consistent with, Gramsci's manuring
>metaphor. Your questions point back to the the dormitory bull session or
>the grad seminar.
Oh go fuck yourself, Carrol. Tom declares that civil disobedience is the way to go. That sounded like a declaration unattached to any specific people or actions, so I asked him to clarify what he meant. You are endorsing a tactic without any specified actors or actions. That's an even purer form of bullshit than my question.
Doug