[lbo-talk] internal threats

Voyou voyou1 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 11:36:29 PST 2011


On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 23:16 +0000, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> So, you're seriously asserting that because the GA warned banks and
> corps, that gives them carte blanche to do whatever?
>
> Really? Giving no additional thought to how that might affect the
> general population who believed they were going to participate in a
> non-violent action?

No, I didn't mean to say that, I was just arguing that the property destruction wasn't necessarily completely irrational or purposeless; I think the way they went about it was probably mistaken. I'm not entirely sure whether what happened was that people engaged in property destruction on a march that was specifically intended as non-violent, or whether the "anti-capitalist march" was intended by its organizers to be open to tactics including property destruction and they didn't make that clear to the people who joined the march, but either way it's clear that a lot of people ended up being part of an action that included things they weren't expecting and which they didn't agree with, and I do agree that it's a real problem that the people who smashed windows put people in that position.

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"When placed in value-relation to the linen, the coat signifies more

than when out of that relation, just as many a man strutting about

in a gorgeous uniform counts for more than when in mufti."

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