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Perspective is Important

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 10:50am.

What if all the energy spent by the left on discussing the breaking of windows at a demo in Vancouver were spent on discussing ways to improve our tactics, our outreach, our mobilization?

I figure as long as capitalism and oppression exist, people are going to be angry. Sometimes that anger is going to manifest into property destruction. Sometimes even, as folks have suggested, cops might disguise themselves in black and instigate or cause that destruction.

If this is the case, it could be angry hurt people or cops in disguise, does it really deserve that much debate? It seems in either case it will likely continue to happen. It happened, it's over. Let's move on. We can discuss broken windows etc... but i think if the left spent their time explaining to "the public" perhaps why these windows got smashed, explained the relationship between olympic sponsor the bay and colonization, we'd be alot farther ahead than having self-styled leaders like david eby and judy rebick denounce a couple smashed windows.

I mean come on, in the same weekend NATO forces killed some 20 something afghan civillians...during an olympic truce!

How much time did you all spend talking about that violent action that happened the same weekend?

It doesn't mean you can't discuss broken windows. But these mostly white liberals who are denouncing the action better be ready to have every single action they ever do be criticized and denounced publicly and out in the open for it's lack of revolutionary quality. Because that is essentially what they are doing by focusing so much on one small element of a massive week long convergence.

Who is distracting who from the real issues?

Perspective is important.

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