Dear all,
David Wood wrote:
Protest will...annoy the settled comfortable majority who don't want to
hear about the bad things. Protest will annoy people who want a quiet life.
Can I add that the form of protest advocated on 30th November will also
alienate and do nothing to empower the vast numbers of the 'uncomfortable'
who also want a quiet life. What the hell is so wrong about wanting a
quiet life, anyway? Most people I know - who are not the comfortable
middle-classes implicated by comments such as the above - would like
nothing better than not have to worry about where the money for the next
bill is paid, whether or not they can afford to MOT the car, etc. They, in
fact, would dearly love to have the luxury of being able to contribute to a
debate like this.....
To imply that aspirations towards something other than narrow identity
politics, the impossible goal of insituting mode of production/way of
life/whatever you want to call it that is non-exploitative (a contradiction
in terms, but a goal that increasingly is desirable apparently just
setting up in a tee-pee and freezing every winter (and now Im setting up
the figure of straw to rail against) are somehow wrong beggars belief. I
mean, lets have a bit of a reality check, here. There's getting to be an
imerialist, not to say highly puritanical, tendency amongst some of the
advocates of 'anarchy in the uk', that sees only one form of identity as
'valid' and authentic. I take entirely people's point that capitalism can
lead to alienation, emptiness, and meaning, but so can many other modes of
production.
And
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