On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are you saying that sabotage is a good thing? > 1. Read the excerpts at my blog (even better, read the texts I've quoted from). http://ecologicalheadstand.blogspot.ca/2012/06/sabotage-and-solidarity-only-thing-that.html http://ecologicalheadstand.blogspot.ca/2012/06/on-nature-and-uses-of-sabotage.html 2. I am not saying anything there. Only quoting. 3. According to the sources I'm citing "sabotage" may not mean what you think it means. 4. Shit happens. It was Veblen's argument, developed at length, that sabotage was an inevitable, respectable, necessary and legal activity of business. 5. In *Carbon Democracy* (2011) Timothy Mitchell argued (following Veblen's thesis), that the oil companies have successfully employed sophisticated sabotage of production throughout the 20th century to maintain super profits and political power. 6. Am I saying that sabotage is a good thing? Is drinking liquids a good thing? Well, it depends on what the particular liquid is, doesn't it? 7. I am gestating an essay (that in all likelihood no one will read) that takes the Veblenian/Giovannittian analysis one step further (I think Giovannitti's introduction to Pouget's pamphlet is more articulate than the pamphlet itself). My argument would be that "sabotage" is, in effect, nothing more than a conscious awakening to conditions of "fatigue and unrest" that already exists. 8. That is to say, "we do not confront the world in a doctrinaire way with a new principle: 'Here is the truth, kneel down before it!' We develop new principles for the world out of the world’s own principles." 9. The partisans of mainstream economics and vulgar political economy have not been merely wrong but have performed as ideological saboteurs *par excellance*. Their *raison d'etre* is to oppose the spread of a truth by spreading a lie. (See Marx's joke about Bill Sykes and his knife or John Holmes's introductory report to the transactions of the 1863 conference of miners in Leeds.) > Jim Devine > On Jun 3, 2012 7:37 AM, "Max Sawicky" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ? >> >> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> "Sabotage is the most formidable weapon of economic warfare, which will >>> eventually open to the workers the great iron gate of capitalist >>> exploitation and lead them out of the house of bondage into the free land >>> of the future." -- Arturo M. Giovannitti, Introduction to the English >>> translation of Émile Pouget's >>> *Sabotage<http://beta.theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-pouget-sabotage.pdf> >>> *, Essex County Jail, Lawrence, Massachusetts, August 1912. >>> >>> >>> http://ecologicalheadstand.blogspot.ca/2012/06/sabotage-and-solidarity-only-thing-that.html >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Tom Walker (Sandwichman) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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