[lbo-talk] Graeber responds to Hedges

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 9 15:54:00 PST 2012


On Feb 9, 2012, at 5:03 PM, c b wrote:


> Certainly there shouldn't be any violence by other Occupiers against
> Black Blockers. But that doesn't get at assessment of the validity of
> Black Bloc tactics. Why r they a good idea to attain the goals of the
> Occupy Movement ? Do they help bring the full 99% into the Movement ?

I've long argued that if you're going to get any kind of meaningful reforms you need a bunch of scary extremists against which "reform" looks like a comforting alternative to the bourgeoisie. So yes, we need the BB or something like it.

Doug



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