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In reply to the discussion: Just heard something interesting about the French Revolution [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)only to have my issue tabled under the broad rubric of "We are always non-violent, no matter the provocation." Forget that I wasn't advocating violence, per se, merely that OLA start thinking about self-defense (errecting barricades, considering tactical retreats and so on). OLA seemed resigned to its fate of taking whatever Villaraigosa's goons were going to serve up.
I say this sadly and mournfully, not critically, because I was not there when the shit hit the fan on November 30. I cannot criticize people who, to me, are heroes of our 'October Revolution.' How can I therefore criticize when I was, at best, a mere 'fellow traveller'?
The self-identified Anarchists I met at OLA seemed to have their shit together more than many others. But I'm not sure if you meant anarchism with an upper-case 'A'. I never heard any ideology of 'anarchism' advanced. I did hear an ideology of 'horizontalism' put forward, an ideology that seemed to enable every tinpot Napoleon so inclined. But I'm an old-school Marxist-Leninist and the kids may have been on to things that old fogies like me just can't fathom