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dk--you sound like an anarchist, of the black block sort, who imagines actions are ends in themselves. so that it almost doesn't matter what the action's organized around, only that it happens--and that there's a kind of political consciousness which follows from a simple confrontation with the Man.
maybe i'm wrong, but i think that radical political action follows in part from having clear objectives, but also from changing how people experience their worlds, themselves in the world, etc. so i think through a basically different conception of what information is than i suspect you do (based on our interactions here at least)...
when you write, it seems like you want to go back to some earlier, better time. i think there's nowhere to go but forward.
btw i'm actually pretty sympathetic to direct democracy, and it's probably because i am sympathetic to it that i don't see anything in a "power to the people" type slogan, particularly not in 2009. i think there's something maybe revolutionary in the idea, but not if you frame is as a return to some pre-capitalist version of what already is. this is probably a function of political background as much as anything else. i come out of a heavily marxist orientation, but one that sees marxism itself as entirely outmoded.
just so you know.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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