Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:02:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Thomas Seay <entheogens-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: How the Reformists attempt to liquidate the anti-war movement


Ben Seattle Wrote:    
<<One well-known antiwar activist, Chuck0, summed it
up well: If we conducted our activism in a way that
pleased the most vociferous anti-activism people, we
would
be reduced to writing letters to politicians and
voting.>>

What is this trend of the Leninists trying to suck up
to anarchists?  Last week I saw what I thought was a
Black Bloc and then found out it was RCPs youth
contingent.

  << Nor do I make a fetish out of blocking traffic. 
I have helped to organize unpermitted marches in the
street--but that is not necessarily the same thing as
focusing on disrupting people who are driving to
work.>>

Yes, that is what we have been trying to do here in
San Francisco...bother drivers.  Where did you get
that line?  If you dont know what people are trying to
do by shutting down streets, then shut the fuck up.

                      
<<But aside from individual actions we also must give
thought to longer term matters.  Sooner or later a
section of serious activists will recognize that there
are only two fundamental paths forward:

   (1) becoming election fodder 
   (2) creating a revolutionary mass movement that is
    directed at eliminating thesystem of bourgeois
rule
>>

Let's translate that second one:  you mean, build THE
revolutionary party, dont you?


              
 <<I support the call made by Chuck0 for an antiwar
organization that isn't interested in cutting deals
with the liberals.>>

Since Chuck0 apparently isnt on this list anymore, I
will respond by saying that I doubt he is interested
in building AN antiwar organization.  He supports the
network model of revolt, hence many organizations.


<<But I hope that if such an organization comes into
existence--it will be focused on more than blocking
traffic or on actions aimed at attention from the
bourgeois press.>>

Your leninist pals in the Workers World Party may be
interested in getting attention from the bourgeois
press...that is not the aim of the folks who have been
shutting things down in San Francisco.  

  <<The masses in this country are being bombarded by
the corporate media with waves of stupid jingo
nonsense and will have an interest>>

Yes, Ben, they are.  You are only disappointed that
they cant be bombarded by stupid leninist jingo
nonsense.


<<We must build our own press, both on the streets (in
the forms of leaflets which give ordinary people an
understanding in _depth_>>

"Ordinary people" ie those who have been deprived of
the insights of such luminaries as Gloria La Riva, the
Becker Brothers and Bob Avakian.


<We must create an organization that is politically
transparent (ie: political differences within the
organization must be public) democratic and
accountable for its actions.>>

Welcome to the world of "mass line"...a leninist
marketing technique that is not unlike "pacing" in
Neurolinguistic Programming.  That is what Ben
Seattle's "outreach program" is all about...getting
errant lambs back into the leninist fold.  Take your
outreach program and stick it up your ass.


-Thomas Seay

====<<Be like me!  The Primal Mother, eternally creative, eternally impelling into life,
    eternally drawing satisfaction from the ceaseless flux of phenomena.>>
    -Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy"

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