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   Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago

   Getting attention? Getting arrested? Hurting people physically? Costing everyone money? It’s like a dog chasing a car, what does he do with it when he catches it?
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   timrinaldo said, 6 months ago

   Wonder how old Stephanie is, that she’ s just discovered Marxism? I bet she’s pretty young. (And impressionable).
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   Stephanie McMillan said, 6 months ago

   Tactics for what?

   There’s been a lot of heated debate about “diversity of tactics,” particularly since Occupy.

   How many blog inches have been devoted to arguing about whether it’s wrong or awesome (or varying degrees of okay in which particular circumstances) to break windows at a demonstration? How many conflicts among demonstrators have occurred between those who want to do it and those who want to prevent it from being done?

   By itself, the question is useless.

   Focusing on tactics misses the point. We can argue with each other for a million years whether property destruction is violence or not, whether voting is violence or not, and whether violence in the abstract is good, bad, or a necessary evil. But it is all empty debate if we avoid the main topic we should be discussing: what’s it for?

   Action for action’s sake is a stupid waste of time and energy. Everything we do should fit into an overall plan. A tactic cannot be judged outside its context. It should be a manifestation of a political line, in harmony with a strategy that has consistency between its short-term and long-term aspects. It should serve a specific goal.

   If you argue for a tactic, you should be able to explain how it gets us where we need to go. This shouldn’t be vague, but worked out as a rational theory. Only with that understanding can the actual employment of that tactic, and its results, be judged as effective (or not).
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago

   What about the tactics of the oligarchs in their decades long project to gut the US Constitution and nullify The Bill of Rights? They have many minions who don’t know the half of it and don’t need to. When you unleash the pillagers they will do what comes naturally won’t they? Like what was done to our economy in 2008. It isn’t over yet.
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   Bob said, 6 months ago

   And one of their allies is in the oval office.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago

   @Bob

   You’ve got that correct. Only he is the nicer of the two. In that he will give us things the Republicans won’t and doesn’t alter the over all plan at all since such cultural things can be suppressed should they become overt.
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   moderateisntleft said, 6 months ago

   I think Stephanie is in the business of ranting, not discussing ideas……..
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