<bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote:
> Really? When the black bloc murdered a few bank workers in Greece in May
> 2010, the question from me was "Why doesn't the Greek CP have a militia to
> enforce discipline at protests?"
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There's no such beast as a death-free dismantling of capitalism. I'll leave aside for now whether capitalism is even dismantleable at all.
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I agree, but perhaps the obvious needs to be added: Ian's point applies even to non-violent movements. Things happen. Also: The Greek CP is not communist, it's not anti-capitalist; it does not have a fucking thing to say about any anti-capitalist movement, unless you mean that as part of the capitalist regime it ought to put the cops more on the alert. There's a certain word magic involved in this assumption that merely calling something Communist or Socialist makes it automatically part of the left.
There are always outliers; regardless of the nature of the 'core' of a movement, there will be elements that differ, often sharply. Bhaskar is indulging in pure fantasy if he imagines a CP (no matter its politics) can exert that kind of discipline over the whole populace.
Carrol