He's speaking a lot of truth there. Any political organization that's acted outraged over the death of Trayvon just to further their ulterior political motives should step down. Not is that mealy-mouthed and two-faced, but such passive strategies fail at addressing the institutions that perpetuate the kind of violence inflicted upon Trayvon. If people seeking change address Trayvon's murder they need to call it was: an act of racist terrorism. And if they do that than their targets will become institutional racism, and, ultimately, class divide.
If people don't believe it's a more effective strategy to reject reform for a general uprising, than maybe they'll believe the enemy. You can bet that the Department of Homeland Security has never worried about single issue causes the way they worry about Occupy in this article:
Also it should be noted that author of that article falsifies a lot of info, for instance Franz Ferdinand's assassin was definitely not an anarchist, nor was the Black Hand an anarchist organization. But one point is still clear: that the spread of anti-authoritarian revolutionary ideas in Occupy is a real threat to the ruling order, more than any reformist movement could ever hope to be.
Couple of typos in that first paragraph. This is what I meant to say:
He's speaking a lot of truth there. Any political organization that's acted outraged over the death of Trayvon just to further their ulterior political motives should step down. Not only is that mealy-mouthed and two-faced, but such passive strategies fail at addressing the institutions that perpetuate the kind of violence inflicted upon Trayvon. If people seeking change address Trayvon's murder than they need to call it for what it was: an act of racist terrorism. And if they do that than their targets will become institutional racism, and, ultimately, class divide.
He's speaking a lot of truth there. Any political organization that's acted outraged over the death of Trayvon just to further their ulterior political motives should step down. Not is that mealy-mouthed and two-faced, but such passive strategies fail at addressing the institutions that perpetuate the kind of violence inflicted upon Trayvon. If people seeking change address Trayvon's murder they need to call it was: an act of racist terrorism. And if they do that than their targets will become institutional racism, and, ultimately, class divide.
ReplyDeleteIf people don't believe it's a more effective strategy to reject reform for a general uprising, than maybe they'll believe the enemy. You can bet that the Department of Homeland Security has never worried about single issue causes the way they worry about Occupy in this article:
http://www.hstoday.us/blogs/guest-commentaries/blog/the-occupy-movement-rising-anarchy/3a87bb57b44e5779f7d087472df92af2.html
Also it should be noted that author of that article falsifies a lot of info, for instance Franz Ferdinand's assassin was definitely not an anarchist, nor was the Black Hand an anarchist organization. But one point is still clear: that the spread of anti-authoritarian revolutionary ideas in Occupy is a real threat to the ruling order, more than any reformist movement could ever hope to be.
Couple of typos in that first paragraph. This is what I meant to say:
DeleteHe's speaking a lot of truth there. Any political organization that's acted outraged over the death of Trayvon just to further their ulterior political motives should step down. Not only is that mealy-mouthed and two-faced, but such passive strategies fail at addressing the institutions that perpetuate the kind of violence inflicted upon Trayvon. If people seeking change address Trayvon's murder than they need to call it for what it was: an act of racist terrorism. And if they do that than their targets will become institutional racism, and, ultimately, class divide.