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... With regard to automation... Maybe you think those people couldn't be unionized anyway?...
Absolutely not. All working folk, regardless of what they do, and without exception, have, can and should organize.
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... About the Ferguson riots: it seems to me that there is a bit of myth that revolutionaries are charming, well educated ideallistic types...
Sure. My point is the folks rioting in Ferguson
weren't revolutionaries. If the cops would have abandoned the city, there still wouldn't have been any revolution there. BTW: that's pretty much how the LAPD handled the 1992 riots, and we know those didn't lead to anything.
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... Individual acts of millitancy may not have much impact: but this type of asymmetric warfare is probably the only effective way to resist the enhanced power of the state with violence...
Again, although it's not what I do, I can't argue against the efficacy of individualized violent militancy, or Diversity of Tactics, in certain situations. Back in the campaign to integrate US lunch counters, in Jacksonville, where there was a riot known as "Axe-handle Saturday". The lunch counters there were snap-desegregated in days... where in other cities that didn't suffer violence, the same task took several years.
However, and again, disorganized rioters aren't waging warfare on the powers-to-be, asymmetric or otherwise.
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... Martin Lewis who popularized PPI claims against UK banks. He cost them billions... I think we can learn a lot from people like him.
BP shareholders also took a serious beating after the gulf drilling platform disaster. There are other mega $$$$ examples too. However, regardless of the $$$$, one thing guaranteed is that the sanctions imposed by the owning class upon the owning class will never be large enough to destabilize the hegemony of the owning class.