Re: Anarchist viewpoint on Melbourne was Re: Fwd: Closing Crown,Blockading WEF by C.O'Reilly

[Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Absolutely, and to count your victory in terms of the number of teeth that
have been knocked out is worse than perverse.  It is silly.  I often think
that the seminal influence here is Attenborough's film Ghandi.  Especially
the scene where all the men lined up to have their heads cracked.

It is the determination of the Catholic Anarchists to define themselves
against what they suspect is the "authoritarian left" that irritates
me.  Thus they sing rather than chant.  They want to pray but don't quite
have the nerve to take out the rosary beads.  So they chant 'om'.  If we
were to demand that everyone sing and chant 'om', then no doubt they would
insist on the Hail Mary.

Still Ciaron continues his own way, and that I admire.  However like most
Anarchists he is thoroughly  authoritarian. One of the more amusing
manifestations of the remorseless dialectic.

regards

Gary


At 02:15  18/09/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Gary's quite right to send us this. The day didn't belong to any one
>faction and it's good to see other views -- which isn't to say I agree
>with them.
>
>As for me, I'd rather chant "Om" than sit down on the ground in the face
>of charging riot police. After someone was RUN OVER by the police,
>continuing to advocate sitting on the ground as a superior strategy is
>surely a bit perverse?
>
>
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