After reading the Debt book, I have been systematically reading through everything he wrote, mostly because he has such a reasonable and disingenous "voice," and because what he says is extremely sensible. I have not run across anything to make me think he is deluded, foolish, or an egomaniac.
So, he probably deserves some credit for getting things going. That's very diff from his saying "OWS is me".
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- this is the third or fourth time i've heard David claim he 'started' OWS -- any thoughts, folks? (the cynic in me wants to recall the classic stereotype of contemporary anarchists as those who, lacking their own theories and movements of substance, irrationally claim others as their own: e.g. the Peter Marshall method: Gandhi? he's one of us! MLK? anarchist to the core! etc. lol)
On 9 February 2012 12:30, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd been waiting for this one.
>
> "I am writing this on the premise that you are a well-meaning person who
> wishes Occupy Wall Street to succeed. I am also writing as someone who was
> deeply involved in the early stages of planning Occupy in New York.
>
> "I am also an anarchist who has participated in many Black Blocs. While I
> have never personally engaged in acts of property destruction, I have on
> more than one occasion taken part in Blocs where property damage has
> occurred. (I have taken part in even more Blocs that did not engage in such
> tactics. It is a common fallacy that this is what Black Blocs are all
> about. It isn’t.)
>
> "I was hardly the only Black Bloc veteran who took part in planning the
> initial strategy for Occupy Wall Street. In fact, anarchists like myself
> were the real core of the group that came up with the idea of occupying
> Zuccotti Park, the '99%' slogan, the General Assembly process, and, in
> fact, who collectively decided that we would adopt a strategy of Gandhian
> non-violence and eschew acts of property damage. Many of us had taken part
> in Black Blocs. We just didn’t feel that was an appropriate tactic for the
> situation we were in ..."
>
> http://nplusonemag.com/concerning-the-violent-peace-police
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
> lytlað."
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