[lbo-talk] occupation and situationists was Re: enemy's turf

Billy O'Connor billyoc at gmail.com
Fri Oct 28 11:14:55 PDT 2011


Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:


> On Oct 28, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>> > How would the bottom 40% of the income distribution, Walmart's
>> core customer base, feel about this?
>>
>> This is NOT the way one goes about considering a tactical
>> suggestion. You are looking at the "final product" and leaving out
>> everything that would come in between. So your question is, at this
>> point, a quibble, a provocation.
>
> You've got to be fucking kidding. There's only so much time in life
> and pissing off the rural working class seems like a bad use of
> it. You issue these pronouncements from on high like you're the Lenin
> of the Cornfields. Where ever does this authority come from?

I'm not sure a Wal-Mart action(beyond robbery) would be a good idea, but you might get a different response from the people who shop there if it were in east Texas rather than, say, North Bergen.



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