Genoa Violence

>>>>> "eric" == Eric Elkollman Lorraine Kollman <Eric> writes:

  eric> I don't know about the "whole goddamned capitalist system"
  eric> that you write of, 

Why not? Information and analysis abounds; if you don't know and have
Web acccess, you may be culpable for not knowing.

	but I do know that the anarchist losers at
  eric> these world economic summits have made themselves despised
  eric> around the world as hooligans.  

Really? I don't despise them. I've heard encouraging reports that the
Genoans have embraced them. 

	Any cause that you and your
  eric> kind are trying to advance (and it's hard to find one amid the
  eric> grungers and stoned-out teenagers who attend these protests)

Ah, this is just name calling. 

  eric> has long been lost by their stupid hooliganism.  In case you
  eric> haven't noticed, the world is on the brink of a global
  eric> economic recession right now.  You and your kind want to bring
  eric> down global corporations, and guess what that will do?  Throw
  eric> us into recession for sure.  

Hmm, the corpos and G-8 seem to be managing this just well without us;
besides, if we're thought of as *hooligans* worldwide, how on earth
can we have such a grand effect?

	Of course, maybe that's your
  eric> goal.  Let me give you a refresher course, because this has
  eric> been done before:  St. Petersburg in October 1917.  And that
  eric> anarchist Communist experience proved to be an unmitigated
  eric> DISASTER!  

That wasn't an anarchist revolution; and the Genoa protesters weren't
*all* anarchists. In fact, I suspect the great majority weren't
anarchists at all. So much for the "refresher course".

	Go read your history books and find out where the
  eric> Bolveshiks took Russia in the years following their
  eric> "revolution."  Just be sure to not miss the famines, epidemics
  eric> (with no doctors to treat them because they were run out of
  eric> the country), firing squads, and, especially, the 8-hour long
  eric> lines at all the stores.  

Careful, your commodity fetishism is showing.

Cheers,
Kendall Clark