[p2p-research] Let's Roll the Tanks against the Banks!

[m.pedersen at lancaster.ac.uk]

On Tue, July 20, 2010 07:26, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>
> in your responsee, you say, this is not what I hear within the movement,
> of course, I am talking what you hear outside the movement ... you do
> concede my point actually but blame it on state violence and terrorism, I
> disagree, it is the images of the black block which are seared into TV
> viewers mind, and most of them see the police as legitimate protection of
> democratically elected leaders ... That hostile forces and corporate media
> will distort events is a given, up to smart social movements to be careful
> not to give them extra ammunition,

Travelling, so only very briefly: Yes, but a lot of the "black bloc" stuff
- and always enough to provide the result you note - will be done by the
state itself. Agent provocateurs are as old as politics. So where does
that leave us? In a land where change is an illusion?