[lbo-talk] Organizing: Code for Mob Violence

[Michael Hoover]

>>> 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