Hi Macdonald,
I wrote:
> > > SOUNDS REASONABLE ENOUGH ON THE FACE OF IT. IF WE SUPPOSE THE MOVEMENT
IS
> > ABLE TO GATHER MASSIVE POPULAR SUPPORT, AND BARRING VIOLENCE, HOW WOULD
THE
> > US WAR MACHINE BE HALTED? HOW WOULD ANYTHING ACTUALLY CHANGE?
> >
> You wrote:
> A quick response and a question: Why bar violence? The day to day
existence
> of this system is the most violent thing we have ever known, any violence
> meted out against it could only pale in comparison. Or, to be trite,
> "political power grows out of the barrell of a gun".
>
> While I'm on the Red Book stuff, I'll add that revolutions just ain't ever
> gonna be a dinner party... it just can't be so well refined.
>
My reply:
I would bar violence except as a very last resort because I and a small
though growing number of others believe there already exists a feasible,
non-violent method of changing the system, i.e. SP www.simpol.org ( - sorry
again Julien!).
John.
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