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
The broken window
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:
But, contrary to the Hazlitt/Bastiat dictum, not every technological
advance
contributes to the welfare of the community either. There is a much more
complex balance of livelyhoods and relationships at stake than can be
answered by the formula, more stuff is better. Blind
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
. . .
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
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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. . .
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
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
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
broken
Here is my contribution to the analysis of tactics and where to go after
Genoa:
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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
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 add:
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