Re: Rampage Across Athens

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

CB, now: > Now you speak with historical hindsight. What would you
have said at the time these events occurred ? Wouldn't you have seen
them as anarchistic and juvenile , hippyism ?<

no, urban revolts of the underpaid and the underemployed of the
shunned and dominated minorities are not the same as a bunch of
middle-class kids destroying ATMs.

BTW, Doug's term, "hippyism," doesn't fit. Most hippies are too stoned
on pot to do anything destructive -- or anything creative, for that
matter.

CB, then:
> > > One must confine one's activistism to electoral politics and
peaceful          demonstration, less we offend people's
sensibilities.<<<

me: >> this is the either/or thinking that we see on the left too
much:  there's no choice but between self-indulgent ATM-burning and
the  excessive politeness of the League of Women Voters. There's no
combinations or subtle variations in between, so anyone who criticizes
one must be advocating the other.<<

CB, now: > I was waiting for you to tell us what the combinations or
subtle  variations in between are.<

not having the time, I'll let you think them up. One example, however,
would be a sit-down strike in a restaurant that refuses to serve
African-American customers. (ancient history!)

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Jim Devine / "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or
calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin