Re: Rampage Across Athens

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:
>
> On 6/22/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx> 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. :-)