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Post by celticfire on Nov 1, 2005 9:31:10 GMT -5
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Burningman
Revolutionary
"where it is by proxy it is not"
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Post by Burningman on Nov 1, 2005 15:30:38 GMT -5
That would be the Portland IMC (not ICM, ahem). This is actual criticism. It's wrong, but it's articulated. The best bet is to have a standard response that is rich with links to the RCP's actual analysis and positions and not engage a point by point every time some tosses a rhetorical firecracker. There is another piece originating on Infoshop.org, penned by the site's webmaster Chuck Munson. It has been posted to several local Indymedia sites, and likely through various listserves: "In case you haven't figured it out, the World Can't Wait is the latest front group by the Revolutionary Communist Party. "If you follow Indymedia websites for your city, or are in touch with your local activist network, you may have seen promotional materials about a national set of protests scheduled on November against the George Bush regime. These protests are being organized by what looks like a new group called The World Can't Wait. In reality this "coalition" is just the latest front group initiated by a marginal communist group called the Revolutionary Communist Party. "The "World Can't Wait" demonstrations are not about driving Bush from power, rather recruiting new people to the RCP and increasing the visibility of the RCP. Like the other remaining authoritarian left sects, the RCP understands that most people would never jojn or support an organization that hold the odious views of the RCP. The only way they can gain new members or influence is to create front groups such as the World Can't Wait or Not In Our Name. Very few people who know a few things about history are going to join or support a group such as the RCP which supported communist tyrants such as Chairman Mao, who some estimate was responsible for 70 million deaths of his countrymen. "Some anarchists and activists have gotten fooled into supporting the November 2 protests. The RCP is capitalizing on anger that many people have towards the Bush administration. Please don't waste your time supporting these protests which are designed to give crebility to the RCP." Originating link: www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20051028142252927Post to NYC Indymedia: nyc.indymedia.org/en/2005/10/59470.htmlThere are others... including Portland, Houston, and Chicago (+ a few others with no cross-talk) ------------ Munson also wrote this on Chicago Indymedia: "This has to be one of the most absurd, ill-conceived things I've seen done in the name of anarchism in many years. That is has been proposed as an "anarchist" event is a slap in the face of anarchists in Chicago and the Midwest. The World Can't Wait is a front for the Revolutionary Communist Party. The RCP is a marginal communist cult that worships some nutjob called Bob Avakian. Anarchists have been making fun of Avakian and the RCP as long as I remember. In fact, when I marched in the 1986 Chicago May Day march with the anarchist contingent, we made fun of the handful of RCP people trying to sell newspapers to us. Since that time anarchism has become THE radical alternative, while the Marxist-Leninism of the RCP has been related to the Museum of Political Oddities. I strongly urge the people or person who made this call to withdraw it." Link: chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/64683/index.php#64935Funny enough, I was at that Mayday '86 march and remember the exact incidents that he is recalling. I guess over the last 20 years, Munson has crafted his asshole tactics a bit. I was just a kid then, but it made me hate meatheaded activists plenty. He wrote this piece attacking a local anarchist affinity group that organized a feeder march for Nov. 2. ------- [additional commentary removed by author]
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Post by Big Red on Nov 26, 2005 21:58:23 GMT -5
It's funny that anarchists, who are among the first to decry "sectarianism", also seem to be really great at it.
Case in point: above noted articles.
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Post by ghgfhf on Mar 26, 2007 17:49:04 GMT -5
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