[lbo-talk] Organizing: Code for Mob Violence

Michael Hoover hooverm at scc-fl.edu
Fri Mar 3 17:56:25 PST 2006



>>> sokol at jhu.edu 03/03/06 10:32 AM >>>
So why did you post that under the heading of "mob violence" - to suggest that these kids are wasting their time on working with liberal organizations and Democratic legislators, and should instead start smashing windows, burning the remaining books and buildings, and shooting their teachers or the police? Wojtek <<<<<>>>>>

yeah, yeah, i know, irony doesn't travel well in cyberspace...

so here goes: i'm looking through some posts on 'social movements' thread, low and behold, i read following comment - *self-deluding mythology that all the Left needs to do to win is to "start organizing" - which is a code word for mob violence* - from post by Wojtek (guess i should have been paying more attention to who posters were, i would have skipped yours)...

i posted article under header 'organizing: code for mob violence' because students' efforts contradict above quoted comment, but i'm not surprised that lbo's resident hobbesian responded the way he did, as hobbes himself said, he and fear were born together... mh



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