File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0107, message 523


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/

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