From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 10:27:08 MDT
"Dickey, Michael F" wrote:
>
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> > significant anarchist anti-globalization point of view with socialist
> > leanings.
>
> Hmmm, that sounds like me ...
>
> > This is just the mindset of those who are most virulently
> > luddite
>
> Yeah, sure.
>
> Dwayne
>
> I can see anarcho-capitalist leaning, but anti globalization? Being against
> globalization doesnt seem to jive to well with a general hope that the
> standard of living will increase globally. You wouldnt want people to
> freely choose to trade with the rest of the world? Would you prefer to
> perpetuate the economic imbalances between 1st and 3rd world nations at the
> expense of the 3rd world nation laborers?
I understand that Greg Burch is rather busy these days, but perhaps he
could weigh in on this.
First off, I didn't say anarcho-capitalist, I said anarchist, with
socialist leanings. If you inspected the contents and hosted sites at
www.tao.org (The Anarchist Organization), they are an umbrella
organization that has spread across Canada and into major US cities,
with 'fellow travellers' on many different campuses as well. To these
types, the only true anarchism is socialist anarchism.
Anarcho-capitalism to them is fascism in sheeps clothing and is
unacceptable. Many of these are actually communists who changed their
stripes after 1990.
Having infiltrated these groups electronically for several years now, I
am quite used to the rhetoric that they regurgitate. It is these types
who are anti-GMO, anti-cloning, anti-technology and anti-globalization.
They see western industrial development in developing countries as a
prop for corrupt regiemes and as a smokescreen of liberal modernization
that impedes their ability to promulgate global socialist revolution.
They oppose golden rice specifically because it helps improve the
nutrition of the poor in 3rd world countries. They believe they need the
poor to suffer in order to provide the proper recruitment incentive for
the left wing revolutionary movements in many of these countries. They
oppose other GM crops for similar reasons: improving the lives of the
3rd world poor impedes their abilities to recruit troops for rebel
armies and suicide bombers for terrorist organizations.
If a developing nation successfully becomes an industrialized liberal
democracy, they believe it becomes lost to 'real' socialist revolution.
As an example, if unemployment in the West Bank dropped to less than
10%, do you think that there would be anywhere near the level of
terrorist violence we've seen in the last few years? There wouldn't,
Israel cut Palestinians off from jobs in Israel in response to bombings
that were staged *specifically* to cause such a cut-off, to create
greater unemployment and suffering, which boosts the recruitment of
terrorist groups. This is how revolutionary strategy works.
With these pipe bombings, it is obvious that with the number of bombs
involved that someone has significant resources and experience
constructing them. It is also obvious that they are a) trying to
minimize risk to themselves, while b) targeting a specific group.
What is this specific group? Mail handlers? Farmers? After the anthrax
mailings last year, suspecting the target is mail handlers is a good
guess. There is a movement in postal worker unions to get the postal
workers treated as military personnel by the government. Both the
anthrax scare and these pipe bombings seem to be trying to establish
that the postal worker is on the front lines of some conflict and
deserves to be treated as a soldier, with the attendant benefits.
On the other hand, if you take the anthrax scare, the streak of
questionable deaths among bioweapon and epidemiologists noted in another
thread, along with this rash of bombings which may or may not be
targeting farmers who grow GMO crops, it seems evident that there is an
active violent insurgency against biotechnology in general underway at
this moment, and it isn't being recognised as such.
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