Re: Rampage Across Athens

[Leigh Meyers <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/22/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fred Hampton spent the final months of his life
> delivering a speech to black high-school students the core of which was
> a condemnation of the Weatherman tendency in SDS. 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.

There were a number of schism within Weather regarding most anything they did..
They had been thoroughly infiltrated as well.

I don't know what "Weatherman tendency" is, except perhaps as embodied
within the "Days of Rage" melee in Chicago 1969 which for many of the
people I knew considered worthless, and did not participate or
condone... or vilify.

That's still my view.


> I haven't read the posts that dealt with the Athens events, so I have no
> way of knowing whether or not that rampage would have been in response
> (or not) to the felt needs of a large element of the population of
> Athens. If it was merely a small-group gesture, than that small group
> might as well have been deliberate provocateurs and traitors.

<...>
The issue in Athens is a long-standing low-intensity warfare between
college students and the government because the Greek government
change the laws regarding education (reform) which, for the first time
in modern history allows police on the Greek college campuses.
<...>

Indymedia follow it. College kids! Whatcha gonna do?

Leigh