Callinicos trashes Black Bloc Again!
Genoa Protestor | 17.02.2003 18:59
One of the leading theorists of the SWP- namely Alex Callinicos, has, once again, trashed the Black bloc in his new book 'An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto'.
One of the leading theorists of the SWP- namely Alex Callinicos, has, once again, trashed the Black bloc in his new book 'An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto'.
On page 5 of the book he blames "the destructive tactics of a small minority of demonstrators (the Anarchist Black Bloc)" for the police repression that was unleashed against the anti-capitalist movement in Genoa.
Does this so-called revolutionary really believe that the state was just going to sit back and passively watch the anti-capitalist movement grow into the hundreds of thousands without responding with violence?
Not only is this SWP theoretician incapable of grasping the true nature of the capitalist state, but he is also incapable of recognising that revolution is an act of force and that revolutionaries cannot avoid using forceful means to resist capitalism!
Capitalism will not just put its hands in the air and declare ,"OK the game's up", when confronted with hundreds of thousands of protestors! This is fantasy politics Mr Callinicos!
I hope all genuine revolutionaries will now go straight to their local bookshop and, to use a Situationist term, detourne (divert)Callinicos's manifesto by inserting the word 'police' into the sentences that blame 'the anarchist black bloc' for the violence of the capitalist system!
On page 5 of the book he blames "the destructive tactics of a small minority of demonstrators (the Anarchist Black Bloc)" for the police repression that was unleashed against the anti-capitalist movement in Genoa.
Does this so-called revolutionary really believe that the state was just going to sit back and passively watch the anti-capitalist movement grow into the hundreds of thousands without responding with violence?
Not only is this SWP theoretician incapable of grasping the true nature of the capitalist state, but he is also incapable of recognising that revolution is an act of force and that revolutionaries cannot avoid using forceful means to resist capitalism!
Capitalism will not just put its hands in the air and declare ,"OK the game's up", when confronted with hundreds of thousands of protestors! This is fantasy politics Mr Callinicos!
I hope all genuine revolutionaries will now go straight to their local bookshop and, to use a Situationist term, detourne (divert)Callinicos's manifesto by inserting the word 'police' into the sentences that blame 'the anarchist black bloc' for the violence of the capitalist system!
Genoa Protestor
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