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The Case for Confrontation
Pacifism as Pathology in Prague
...Time To Take Off The Gloves.
...Time To Take Off The Gloves.
Why real change will never happen as long as our disobedience is submissively civil.
To the vast majority of those that were there, the actions against the IMF and World Bank in Prague in September were a resounding success. Not only was the scythe of global privatisation, dollarisation and misappropriation temporarily wrested from the hands of the blood-letters meeting in the Prague Conference Centre, S26 saw an international, disparate but united, revolutionary bloc acting as an organised unit on the streets of the Bohemian capital. So why are the loudest shouters in the activist community (in the loosest sense of the word community) hell-bent on convincing the
world that the day\'s actions were a failure?
\"We are in this movement to fight for innocent citizens who suffer the horrible consequences of unrestricted capitalist plundering,\" wrote Kontrast, the newspaper of the Prague Independent Media Centre (IMC), mouthpiece of INPEG and self-appointed voice of the assembled masses. Fair enough, you may think. Then they add: \"If you threw a rock, firebomb, apple, bottle or anything else at a cop during yesterday\'s protest... you have betrayed INPEG
To the vast majority of those that were there, the actions against the IMF and World Bank in Prague in September were a resounding success. Not only was the scythe of global privatisation, dollarisation and misappropriation temporarily wrested from the hands of the blood-letters meeting in the Prague Conference Centre, S26 saw an international, disparate but united, revolutionary bloc acting as an organised unit on the streets of the Bohemian capital. So why are the loudest shouters in the activist community (in the loosest sense of the word community) hell-bent on convincing the
world that the day\'s actions were a failure?
\"We are in this movement to fight for innocent citizens who suffer the horrible consequences of unrestricted capitalist plundering,\" wrote Kontrast, the newspaper of the Prague Independent Media Centre (IMC), mouthpiece of INPEG and self-appointed voice of the assembled masses. Fair enough, you may think. Then they add: \"If you threw a rock, firebomb, apple, bottle or anything else at a cop during yesterday\'s protest... you have betrayed INPEG
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§Right on.
I love non-violence, but when you're dealing with a police force that will break your bones and rape you without hesitation, traditional non-violence isn't always the most effective tactic. We need to realise that both tactics are applicable in difference circumstances, and criticizing and whining isn't going to help anything.
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§right on also.
right on. right on. professional activists are the death knell of the aging archaic left and right. we're either going to fucking do this or we are going to be stuck at non-profits and shit jobs for the rest of our lives barely able to afford to print a newsletter that no one will ever read. this is it. let's do it.
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