are you kevin keating? if so you're banned
Small Efforts to Contribute to the Rise of a New Social Movement in the U.S.
Seems like every couple of months, for as long as I can remember, one of like 2-3 people who were involved with this campaign (and apparently can't stand each other) forgets to take their meds and has some weird compulsive need to post their version of how the thing went down and what lessons we're all supposed to draw from it... and all of 'em seem to overlook the obvious lesson: there's way too many anarcho/lefty crackpots in San Francisco to ever accomplish anything radical of lasting substance in that city. Give up, get over it and move on already!
Smash Rich Bastards wrote:
Seems like every couple of months, for as long as I can remember, one of like 2-3 people who were involved with this campaign...
Actually, there was only ever just one person, and that was Kevin Keating -- who, btw, is obviously acting out here because he's having flame wars elsewhere.
And since this is Keating, what does that make, 3 strikes? Fortunately, he hasn't smeared anyone yet, but still he's back and isn't it time to ban him once again?
I know most of 'em are Kevin, but there always seems to be a couple of other Bay Area wingnuts ready to jump in with their own competing anaylsis/versions of history. Although, on second thought, it wouldn't be all that surprising if those are just Kevin Keating's bipolar alter-egos arguing with each other. Hmmm...
Do any substantial, thoughtful, fully adult people ever read the libcom.org web site?
If so, it would be good to engage in a debate or dialog with them.
All of the responses so far are evidence that the ones responding aren't capable of engaging in an intelligent discussion of what's presented here -- they say nothing of substance because they have nothing substantial to say. If the perspectives in these articles were easy to refute, these leftists would do it.
Almost 100% of the human species regards people with anarchist or to-the-left-of-Leninism perspectives as unintelligible boring, repulsive cranks. The response here so far is a good example of why that's so.
Stot wrote:
Do any substantial, thoughtful, fully adult people ever read the libcom.org web site?
If so, it would be good to engage in a debate or dialog with them.All of the responses so far are evidence that the ones responding aren't capable of engaging in an intelligent discussion of what's presented here -- they say nothing of substance because they have nothing substantial to say. If the perspectives in these articles were easy to refute, these leftists would do it.
Almost 100% of the human species regards people with anarchist or to-the-left-of-Leninism perspectives as unintelligible boring, repulsive cranks. The response here so far is a good example of why that's so.
Kevin, weren't you banned from libcom?
SMALL EFFORTS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE RISE OF A NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
Since the early 1990's, actions in the San Francisco Bay Area around mass transit, described here,
http://www.infoshop.org/myep/love2.html
the initial impetus behind this,
http://www.infoshop.org/myep/muni_social_strikeout.html
and the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project
http://www.infoshop.org/myep/myep_criticism.html
have been elements of an ongoing effort to establish a new kind of anti-state/anti-market, autonomous class struggle praxis, a new pattern of action relevant to the times we live in.
These actions should be seen as different moments in a single continuous effort, and as a first step towards creating a new proletarian politics in the country that is a central force in our larger global problem.
Each effort was initiated and pursued based on an understanding that --
1. These efforts take place "on the terrain of everyday life" of the contemporary wage-earning class, where working people confront what market relations do to our lives, and where worsening conditions of work and life give rise to the possibility of a mass collective response. These efforts haven't been directed towards the left-liberal protest ghetto, or toward academic, anarchist or Marxist subcultures.
2. Mass collective class struggle includes the fight against the boss in the workplace, but is not limited to the workplace.
3. In both form and substance the methods used to help catalyze a new politics of working class resistance to capitalism and it's political apparatus have to be qualitatively different from the politics of failure, the politics of the conventional left -- the left-wing of capital.
4. Authentic enemies of capitalism in the 21st century cannot use the strategies, tactics or communication methods used by pro-wage labor leftists in the 20th century.
5. With the virtual disappearance of the conventional left, and the accelerating decline of the United States as a world power, the way is now open for the creation of a new type of autonomous working class oppositional praxis. This praxis freely takes insights from the best aspects of the historical revolutionary movement of the past two hundred years and uses these insights as a point of departure, and not as an end-point. Anarcho-syndicalism and council communism were both useful in their day. That day has passed.
The efforts around mass transit described in the articles above have a much greater future subversive potential than the Mission District anti-gentrification effort; they have the potential to directly involve more working people over an entire city and to have a "bleed-through" effect, spreading resistance into other areas of modern life. But the communications methods use in the yuppie eradication project were more effective at getting an extremist message out in a big way than what happened with the mass transit efforts.
What's being examined here is mostly a method of communication. These methods can be a template for similar anti-state/anti-capitalist prole actions elsewhere, including but not limited to fights around housing and social space.
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