Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 21:58:25 -0800 (PST) From: commie zero zero <commie00-AT-yahoo.com> Subject: Re: AUT: My anti-inauguration flyer now this is elementary... sorry, but... but the reason not to vote has always been terribly obvious to me: voting perpetuates people relying on institutionalized leaders and such. it also maintains the illusion that the state is anything but the collective will and voice of capitalism (as even negri and hardt point out), and that it can be used for good. instead of this: it has always seemed obvious to me that the real work is two-fold: 1) organizing anti-hierarchical / anti-exchange (read: participatory mutual aid) dual power structures here and now, that prefigure, as much as possible, the world we want... and thus exist in contradiction to capitalism / as an attack on capitalism. & 2) organizing to defend these structures & force an "expansion of the floor of the cage", realizing that any "reforms" gained are temporary and prolly won't be implimented, so that our dual power organizing can expand. this can never be accomplished thru voting since anything like this has only come about thru us forcing them. period. from here we can derive quite a lot else, prolly... but i'll leave it... ====commie00 --------------------------------- http://www.geocities.com/commie00 --------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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