Inflated Scrotums and Embarrassing Yanks.
Jul 17 2006 16:37
Didn't want to derail the thread over on the North American forum but I actually found a picture of the incident with the inflated scrotums so we can all discuss whether it's advancing the self-activity of the wc now.
I think it's more offensive that Ward Churchill was allowed to speak
http://www.zombietime.com/churchill_in_bay_area/churchill_sf_anarchist_bookfair_march_26_2005/
Jul 17 2006 16:42
#2
http://libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10563
It's amazing really.
Jul 17 2006 16:45
#3
I think it's actually pretty good, because the fact that Chuck0 and Peter defended it shows how utterly ridiculous and wrong their politics are, better than any amount of argument ever could.
Jul 17 2006 16:48
#4
Jack wrote:
I think it's actually pretty good, because the fact that Chuck0 and Peter defended it shows how utterly ridiculous and wrong their politics are, better than any amount of argument ever could.
Who is this peter chap anyways? Reminds me of myself when I was 14.
Jul 17 2006 16:50
#5
christ, thats noam chomsky in the middle of the picture!
Jul 17 2006 16:51
#6
An Australian activistoid who plays an ultra-leftist on the internet.
Jul 17 2006 16:53
#7
Highlights of that bookfair
"Pin the molotov on the cop car"
Inflated scrotums
Free Ted Kaczynski stickers
"Americans are no different from Nazis" - Ward Churchill
Thank fuck I live in Ireland.
Jul 17 2006 16:57
#8
I think I've met peter a few times over the years when he was in Europe and seems as sounds as houses. If you actually read what he says he isn't defended the ball sack inflation but rather arguing the fact that:
peter wrote:
The lifestylists and the party-builders within anarchism are equally annoying NOW but come serious revolt I reckon the lifestylists will be irrelevant whereas many of the party-builders will be siding with the unions against insurgent proles. So I get much more annoyed by the party-builders.
and
peter wrote:
Your position is still basically that anarchism needs to improve its public image as if this would be an important advance in the class struggle. It wouldn't. Your mates hardly need to get an injection of anarcho ideology at some bookfair before they go on strike.
Anyway I find it much more entertaining than hearing any youse speaking
Jul 17 2006 17:04
#9
guydebordisdead wrote:
http://www.zombietime.com/churchill_in_bay_area/churchill_sf_anarchist_bookfair_march_26_2005/
Oh my god that is brilliant, have you actually read this!!! 
Hilarious! 
Or was some of it written tongue in cheek. 
I think this could be another case where I mistakenly interpret the activities of american anarchists and get myself in trouble again.
I'm sure alot of ppl on here will like this one
"Somewhat out of place were the Wobblies, since their advocacy of a universal workers' union implies not only that there should be some sort of social structure, but that there should be workers at all -- both of which notions were at odds with the other groups at the fair, most of which sought the complete elimination of both the concept of "employment" and of civilization altogether."
Jul 17 2006 17:30
#10
Shorty wrote:
guydebordisdead wrote:
http://www.zombietime.com/churchill_in_bay_area/churchill_sf_anarchist_bookfair_march_26_2005/Oh my god that is brilliant, have you actually read this!!!
Shorty that site is run by a Republican Zionist type. Still the scrotum thing is pretty funny
Jul 17 2006 19:31
#11
raw wrote:
I think I've met peter a few times over the years when he was in Europe and seems as sounds as houses. If you actually read what he says he isn't defended the ball sack inflation but rather arguing the fact that:peter wrote:
The lifestylists and the party-builders within anarchism are equally annoying NOW but come serious revolt I reckon the lifestylists will be irrelevant whereas many of the party-builders will be siding with the unions against insurgent proles. So I get much more annoyed by the party-builders.and
peter wrote:
Your position is still basically that anarchism needs to improve its public image as if this would be an important advance in the class struggle. It wouldn't. Your mates hardly need to get an injection of anarcho ideology at some bookfair before they go on strike.Anyway I find it much more entertaining than hearing any youse speaking
I see you've found your a mentor, congratulations, I mean he's no Negri but he has read Aufheben and Gille Dauve so he is a true intellectual tour de force, albeit one who shits his own ultra leftist panties by engaging in the substitutionist spectacle of summit protesting as "communist superhero".
what a fucking fanny.
Don't worry though, he was a serb nationalist, then an anarchist, then some sort of ultra left caricature, so maybe next time you meet him he will embraced some other ideology hook line and sinker.
And again, I have no desire to "sanitise" the anarchist movement/ghetto but rather wish to reclaim a rich part of the working classes history from a bunch of overly inflated ball bags.
Jul 17 2006 21:09
#12
Shorty wrote:
I'm sure alot of ppl on here will like this one"Somewhat out of place were the Wobblies, since their advocacy of a universal workers' union implies not only that there should be some sort of social structure, but that there should be workers at all -- both of which notions were at odds with the other groups at the fair, most of which sought the complete elimination of both the concept of "employment" and of civilization altogether."
I can't decide whether to be more pissed off about the shit politics or the total innability to understand the difference between a means and an end.
So I'm just going to sit here quietly and hate Ward Churchill for a bit.
Jul 17 2006 22:15
#13
madashell wrote:
Shorty wrote:
I'm sure alot of ppl on here will like this one"Somewhat out of place were the Wobblies, since their advocacy of a universal workers' union implies not only that there should be some sort of social structure, but that there should be workers at all -- both of which notions were at odds with the other groups at the fair, most of which sought the complete elimination of both the concept of "employment" and of civilization altogether."
I can't decide whether to be more pissed off about the shit politics or the total innability to understand the difference between a means and an end.
So I'm just going to sit here quietly and hate Ward Churchill for a bit.
Like I said - the above quote was by a zionist Republican
Jul 17 2006 22:22
#14
What Ward Churchill said was still more offensive. Some fucknut bigged that speech up in MRR too. 
Jul 17 2006 22:34
#15
Alan wrote:
MRR
admin edit - warning to people at work - this page not work-safe, although you should've guessed that from the thread title
Jul 17 2006 22:35
#16
John. wrote:
Like I said - the above quote was by a zionist Republican
Ah. Missed that.
I did wonder why it referred to the Unabomber as Ward Churchill's "philosophical soulmate"
Jul 17 2006 22:38
#17
John. wrote:
MaximumRocknRoll. A long running punk/hardcore 'zine that vaguely pretends to be 'radical' at times.
Lots of lifestylist shit.
Jul 17 2006 23:02
#18
The sad thing was that it was about as political as the zine's been in a while. I'd recommend they steered clear of the politics and stuck to introducing me to rad new hardcore bands. Oh wait, there haven't been any good ones since 1983. Shit.
On topic, Jack's right. Clearly the best way to enhance your scrotum is to pierce it.
Jul 17 2006 23:20
#19
Forgive my naiveté, but why would someone inflate their ball sack? And also, how?!
Jul 17 2006 23:25
#20
Grace wrote:
Forgive my naiveté, but why would someone inflate their ball sack?
Don't you find large balls sexy?
Jul 17 2006 23:26
#21
What if it .... burst?! 
Jul 17 2006 23:27
#22
Alan wrote:
Grace wrote:
Forgive my naiveté, but why would someone inflate their ball sack?Don't you find large balls sexy?
Really, I can't say I do. That large, certainly not. Is that the actual reason?
Jul 17 2006 23:31
#23
jack enjoying some quiet time. (copy of Aufheben out of shot)
Jul 17 2006 23:32
#24
AAAARGH!!!
Jul 17 2006 23:37
#25
revol68 wrote:
jack enjoying some quiet time. (copy of Aufheben out of shot)
No way is he that well hung!
Jul 17 2006 23:40
#26
Alan wrote:
revol68 wrote:
jack enjoying some quiet time. (copy of Aufheben out of shot)
No way is he that well hung!
Alan it's inflated with salin, do keep up dear.
Also if I posted that pic on the "Evil" thread I reckon it would be over in less than 3 posts.
Jul 18 2006 00:18
#27
I still don't understand 
Jul 18 2006 00:18
#28
Grace honey, it's a penis.
Jul 18 2006 07:08
#29
People who like piercings do it, cos it's like a piercing with salt water. People who like piercings are weird. Geddit?
Jul 18 2006 08:22
#30
John. wrote:
People who like piercings do it, cos it's like a piercing with salt water. People who like piercings are weird. Geddit?
That's pretty much what I thought.
But I am a square though.
umm
Wtf?!!! Whats the thread on North Am about?