Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 01:39:42 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Scott=20Hamilton?= <s_h_hamilton-AT-yahoo.com> Subject: Re: AUT: Time Magazine Blames Giuliani and Anarchists Thomas: > Reading this article, I think that the ruling class > is going to try to split off the reformist type groups...I think we will see something like the > way the african-american movement was treated in > this country...reformers, such as ML King were given an audience, while more revolutionary elements, such as Malcolm X, were treated in the press as fanatics and > nuts... I think you're right Thomas. Another example we could use, perhaps, is the case of the moderate soc democratic parties and unions in the West early in the 20th C. An interesting question is whether capitalism will be able to assimilate the moderate leaders this time - does the decline of the welfare state and the social contract mean that there are insufficient goodies for moderate leaders to administer as mangerial 'representatives' on behalf of the ruling class? For my part, I think it is important that the far left does not go out of its way to alienate the leaders of moderate groups like Friends of the Earth and Drop the Debt, let alone their rank and file members. It's easy to mock Bob Geldof, for example, but far more people agree with him than us at the moment, and these people will need to stay involved, if anticapitalism is to change the world. Cheers Scott ====For "a ruthless criticism of every existing idea": THR-AT-LL, NZ's class struggle anarchist paper http://www.freespeech.org/thrall/ THIRD EYE, a Kiwi lib left project, at http://www.geocities.com/the_third_eye_website/ and 'REVOLUTION' magazine, a Frankfurt-Christchurch production, http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/%7Ejho32/ ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free -AT-yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free -AT-yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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