File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2002/anarchy-list.0205, message 4


Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 12:39:13 -0400
Subject: Re: Another World is possible! A Black Flag May Day Special


Joshua Houk wrote:
> 
> > Iain McKay wrote:
> > >
> > > This is the text of a leaflet produced for the May Day
> > > demonstration in Glasgow.
> > >
> > > ******************************************************
> > > Another World is possible!
> >
> > So, why are you guys using this phrase that the liberals use to make our
> > movement more palatable to the middle class?
> 
> Obviously because our British Comrades have not been following in lockstep
> with current Anarchist dogma, the bastards. Can someone on the list send
> this to Iain? It's really embarrassing when people use verboten
> phraseology - one hopes that the folks at Black Flag will adhere more
> strictly to the Party in the future. After all we don't want to purge them.
> Yet.
> 
> > I certainly can't imagine any of the Haymarket martyrs uttering this on
> > the execution stand.
> 
> Too true! You get 'em, Chuck!

I just thought it was kind of odd that Iain would choose that phrase.

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