Lack of credibility of the libcom.org website?
Kevin Keating | 17.12.2008 21:45 | Other Press | World
If you're in the market to sell a bridge you own in Brooklyn, then skip Ebay; you might find an enthusiastic willing buyer on the UK's libcom.org...
This doc:
http://libcom.org/library/fare-strike-s ... cisco-2005
Is the only version of a series of events in San Francisco in 2005 that gets linked to on the UK ultra-left/anarchist website libcom.org
That doc, and this doc:
http://www.infoshop.org/myep/muni_social_strikeout.html
Present two very different and extremely contradictory interpretations of the same series of events.
I explain my version of why this is here:
http://www.infoshop.org/myep/muni_farestrike.html
Obviously based on the sort of antics that take place on libcom 'forums' there's no love lost between me on the one hand, and the sort of people who spend a significant portion of their lives posting lots and lots of stuff on libcom. And I don't expect people who were geographically distant from the actions being written about here to automatically accept my version of what happened.
But basic honesty and integrity on the part of the people who do libcom.org would mean:
1. either having links to both of the docs -- and then trusting that their readers can judge for themselves,
2. or having links to neither of them.
It's obvious that if the mighty revolutionists of libcom.org don't want to get a reputation for being easily played by any leftist hustler who will tickle them under their chins and tell them whatever they want to hear, then libcom.org should either post links to both versions of this story, or not have links to either one.
Kevin Keating
San Francisco
http://libcom.org/library/fare-strike-s ... cisco-2005 Is the only version of a series of events in San Francisco in 2005 that gets linked to on the UK ultra-left/anarchist website libcom.org
That doc, and this doc:
http://www.infoshop.org/myep/muni_social_strikeout.html Present two very different and extremely contradictory interpretations of the same series of events.
I explain my version of why this is here:
http://www.infoshop.org/myep/muni_farestrike.html Obviously based on the sort of antics that take place on libcom 'forums' there's no love lost between me on the one hand, and the sort of people who spend a significant portion of their lives posting lots and lots of stuff on libcom. And I don't expect people who were geographically distant from the actions being written about here to automatically accept my version of what happened.
But basic honesty and integrity on the part of the people who do libcom.org would mean:
1. either having links to both of the docs -- and then trusting that their readers can judge for themselves,
2. or having links to neither of them.
It's obvious that if the mighty revolutionists of libcom.org don't want to get a reputation for being easily played by any leftist hustler who will tickle them under their chins and tell them whatever they want to hear, then libcom.org should either post links to both versions of this story, or not have links to either one.
Kevin Keating
San Francisco
Kevin Keating
e-mail:
proletaire2003@yahoo.com
Homepage:
http://www.infoshop.org/myep/love_index.html
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