Quoth Jim D:
> valis, who are you kidding? do you really think that "propaganda of the
> deed" (to use the old anarchist phrase) works? do you think that the media
> couldn't easily put a reactionary spin on the sabotage of a TV relay tower,
> especially since McVeigh is/was a reactionary of the worst sort? valis, old
> buddy, your conception of politics sounds like it hasn't progressed much
> since the Weatherman "days of rage."
Thanks for the lecture, Jim, but none of that mapping applies. I wasn't
into political violence back then and I don't consider McVeigh to be
a reactionary, just a swindled working class boy who unaccountably failed
to bump into the right academic Marxist in time.
> Unfortunately, it's not individual acts of violence that change history for
> the better. It's mass movements like the civil rights movement or the
> anti-war movement (to name two). No -- change the word at the start of this
> paragraph to "fortunately." If people like the Unabomber could have a big
> impact by sending letter bombs, you'd have everybody doing it. The
> "freedom" would be more of a Hobbesian war than socialism, a dictatorship
> of the violent rather than a democracy of the proletariat.
I don't think you've gotten a good look at the enemy, from the drug cops
on up: I've seen higher forms of life crawling on shithouse walls.
You can have visions of Gandhian masses shaming courtly Etonian Brits into
capitulation if you want, but this is America, trump card of the globalizers,
and I know that quite a wicked demolition derby will necessarily precede
whatever you (or I) would prefer to see.
valis
"I didn't just screw Ho Chi Minh. I cut his pecker off."
-- LBJ to reporters (August 5, 1964)
