Close but not quite the Absolute mind you :)
Cheers, Ken Hanly.
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From: Ian Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:23 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:15674] Re: RE: Genoa and Beyond II: The View from the Black
Bloc
>
Steve Diamond wrote,
>A few days ago I posted a brief critique of the direct action and anarchist
>elements' role in the anti-globalization movement. The following "defense" of
>the tactics of the Black Bloc is being circulated by sympathizers with this
>milieu. As a law professor I can only
< "What violence does breaking a window at Nike Town cause? It makes a
loud noise; maybe that is what is considered violent. It creates broken
glass, which could hurt people, although most of the time those surrounding
the window are only Black Bloc protesters who are aware of the risks of
br
Here is my contribution to the analysis of tactics and where to go after
Genoa:
==
>From the Progressive Populist www.populist.com
NATHAN NEWMAN
A Death in Genoa: Who killed Carlo Guiliani?
Who killed Carlo Guiliani?
In one sense, a death in Genoa was predictable, practically predicted
> . . .
> What are the members of the mainstream cult afraid of? What are YOU
afraid
> of? What am I afraid of? The G8? The WTO? The IMF? Globalization?
The cops?
> The Black Bloc? The Almighty Dollar? The Apocalypse?
> nope
> Tom Walker
>
>
> you'll have to bring this down from poetry
> to pro
. . .
What are the members of the mainstream cult afraid of? What are YOU afraid
of? What am I afraid of? The G8? The WTO? The IMF? Globalization? The cops?
The Black Bloc? The Almighty Dollar? The Apocalypse?
nope
Tom Walker
you'll have to bring this down from poetry
to prose for the more dense
It is not just discipline that is lacking. It is also strategy. The
globalization protests are like a dog chasing a car. What would they do with
it if they caught it?
Nathan writes about the protesters, the police, the elites and the media as
if they are the actors in the drama. The public makes
Ian Murray asked,
>So is the lump-of-labor the Absolute?
Absolute-ly.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
> The broken window fable is part and parcel of the
luddism/lump-of-labour
> refrain. It is the bulwark defence of the mainstream cult. It is a
clever
> concoction of half-truths, straw men and abstract theorizing posing
as
> empirical fact.
So is the lump-of-labor the Absolute?
Ian
David Shemano asked,
>As the resident reactionary, I have to ask, does this mean that the
>anarchists do not do readings of Bastiat and Henry Hazlitt at their strategy
>sessions?
As the resident non-reactionary, non-anarchist reader of Henry Hazlitt and
Bastiat, I am sorry to confirm David's sus
> If we eliminated lawyers, what would aggressive, argumentative, anal,
> overeducated liberal arts types do?
I find a well-balanced mailing-list subscription regime answers tolerably well ...
Cheers,
Rob.
Tom Walker writes:
<<>>
I agree entirely.
Well, not entirely. The conservative side of me agrees with you. But the
libertarian side of me believes that any proposed cure would be worse than
the disease.
If we eliminated lawyers, what would aggressive, argumentative, anal,
overeducated libera
> Well, not entirely. The conservative side of me agrees with you.
But the
> libertarian side of me believes that any proposed cure would be
worse than
> the disease.
>
> If we eliminated lawyers, what would aggressive, argumentative,
anal,
> overeducated liberal arts types do?
>
> David Shemano
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