The BBC team is as vile as some of the US hacks. Gene Coyle
On Aug 10, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Paul Cockshott wrote: > Have a look at Darcus Howe on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqn75z6CvI4 > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Carrol Cox [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 6:17 PM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] riots > > Riots are a pre-political response lacking any effective formal means of > response to some outrage. (The instigators may or may not be "hot > heads.") Most only devlop into riots when minor bits of vandalism are > met by a full-scale pol9ice riot. Very few riots are not, essentially, > police riots. > > Riots are rare in communities that have been politicized. After the > death of King NO rioting occurred in any neighborhood in which SNCC or > the Panthers had been organizing. > > Carrol > > On 8/10/2011 10:29 AM, jmp wrote: >> >> >> On 10/08/11 15:58, Jim Devine wrote: >>> a couple of months ago, my son (age 21) asked me why riots occur (in >>> reference to the 1992 "Rodney King" riots in LA). He clearly had no >>> clue, so I gave him a short and quick answer. Here it is, changed a >>> bit: >>> >>> 1) there's a community inside society that's outside of the mainstream >>> and/or dominated by the rest of society. It's not well organized. >>> >>> 2) there's a reason for this community to be angry (cf. Rodney King). >>> >>> 3) opportunists and/or "hot heads" start looting, burning, and/or >>> anti-personnel violence (which turns it into a "riot"). >>> >>> any thoughts? By the way, I think that this fits such riots as the >>> "white riot" against Martin Luther King, Jr., in Chicago in 1965. It's >>> not just a matter of ethnic minorities. >> >> Whenever there are western/urban riots I always re-read Debord's "The >> Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy", which is about the >> riots in LA in 1965: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/decline.html >> >> -martin >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
