On Oct 18, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> Several audience members said that none of this is being discussed at Zuccotti. Everyone's too polite to fight. Anarchists are very much into manners.
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> FWIW, at least one working guide to anarchist democracy considers too much politeness a corruption of the process. The following is from _Come Hell Or High Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry_, by Delfina Vannucci & Richard Singer, a short popular handbook put out by the anarchist A&K press (run by a collective, of course):
My god, that wouldn't be the Richard Singer, of the armed Spanish partisan lady in her red undies fame, from Bad Subjects, would it?
Evidently they haven't been following this advice down at Zuccotti. Maybe things have changed in the last four or five days.
Doug