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Very interesting, Thomas! Do you know much about the makeup of the people being arrested? Are they mostly students, like Olga? Are they working class, or not? Glenn > The logical conclusion is it is stupid and short-sighted for protesters to > try and keep themselves and their protests on the right side of the law, > appealing endlessly to the law as a supreme value and, moreover, outing > protesters who break the law as “provocateurs,” one of the favorite hobbies > of the legal opposition. It is like trying to win a fight without breaking > rules drawn up by your enemy. So it is quite pretty to read the Russian > Constitution out loud to riot policemen, but it is also naive, pretentious, > and frivolous. They care a thousand times more about their discounted > apartments and bonuses than they care about the Constitution. > > https://therussianreader.com/2019/08/04/mikola-dziadok-moscow-protests/ > <https://o.ello.co/https://therussianreader.com/2019/08/04/mikola-dziadok-moscow-protests/> > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gkissack%40nyc.rr.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
