Jim Devine wrote: > > On 6/22/07, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Such violence (as > > practiced by Weatherman or by most anarchist tendencies) is > > counter-revolutionary: it divides and weakens the revolutionary forces. > > It is every bit as bad as pure electoralism. > > I think that's more than a tad unfair to most anarchist tendencies, > which also tend to be pacifist.
In part. While anarchists come in many varieties (contrast Noam Chomsky & Chuck Munson), I think it is the most useful label for all tendencies which emphasize independent small-group activity.* And during the '60s, there were many who started off as non-violent civil disobedience and ended moving towards violence. The ideology of Moral Witness permeates a good deal of small-group activism -- and can easily take either non-violent or violent form. Carrol *And of course there are self-labelled anarchists who do not fall under my usage here. But as the poet says, I gotta use words when I talk to you. :-)
