[lbo-talk] Lenin would support Pussy Riot

[wrobert at uci.edu]

My impression is that Voina and Pussy Riot are not the same organization. 
There are over-laps, but they aren't precisely the same.  This stuff
strikes me as a dumber version of a lot of stuff that one finds within a
lot of avant-garde art (not that much dumber.)  It also strikes me as a
distraction from the action that got the group in trouble, which is
different than a lot of the actions that have been used to criticize the
group (some of which involved some members of the group, some of which
didn't.)  I don't see the use of 'petit bourgeois' contributing anything
to the conversation.

At a slightly more substantial level, while I'm not in the Crimethinc camp
on the question of theft, one should acknowledge that this form of petty
reappropriation is not the same thing as the accumulation of capital.

robert wood
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> In July of 2010, an action entitled How to Snatch a Chicken was performed
> in the “Nakhodka” supermarket in St. Petersburg. An unidentified
> female Voina activist removed a frozen chicken from the refrigerated
> section of the supermarket, then laboriously stuffed the entire chicken
> into her own vagina, while being filmed by other Voina members. She then
> shoplifted the chicken by leaving the supermarket without paying, with the
> chicken still inserted, and rejoined protesters outside the store.[13] The
> activists held signs spelling out the word "bezblaydno", which translates
> roughly as "without whoring", a reference to the group's rejection of paid
> employment, and preference for stealing food.
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> ....and you don't find this adolescent and petit bourgeois? Stealing is
> radical? So the ruling class are the true revolutionaries?
>
> Joanna
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