>On 2012-02-14, at 3:32 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
>
> > as such, the concern is how to extricate the good people and keep them
> > from getting caught up in OWS silliness. I think Marv said it about
> > Lou Proyect. Lou's arguments are fabulous for keeping people like me
> > from supporting or engaging in Black Blocs, etc.
>
>Huh? I said what?
At 10:01 PM 2/7/2012, Marv Gandall wrote:
>I doubt very much Louis and like critics of these tactics are aiming their
>comments at the Black Blockers. They're aimed at the larger number of
>activists who also deplore Black Bloc vandalism but whose liberal values
>and, in many cases, anarchist sympathies encourage toleration of Bloc
>behaviour under the rubric "diversity of tactics". This was not the case
>in the 30's and even the 60's, when the organizers and marshals of mass
>demonstrations, not a few of them Marxists and trade unionists, full well
>understood how these provocative tactics alienated the public and gave the
>cops a pretext for repressing and intimidating the mass of demonstrators.
>They sought to strongarm them out of the ranks whenever necessary.
>Proyect, I'm sure, would rather see the majority adopt this approach than
>yield to the Black Blockers. The soft muddleheaded professors are on the
>other side of the debate.