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In reply to the discussion: Anarchists? We don't have no steenking anarchists... [View all]tama
(9,137 posts)The great victory of Seattle (as said, WTO not going anywhere since that) and the initiative momentum it gave to the anticapitalist movement took nothing less than 9/11 and neocon + third way war campaign to turn attention of masses to reactionary and futile; frustrated and defeatist anti-war demonstrations. TPTB created image of external threat to divert attention of people from real issues, age old trick but once again succesful for anticapitalist movement to lose initiative and momentum. That is the most important lesson of anti-war movement of 60's (after the great victories, initiative and momentum of Civil Rights etc. movements) and of those against Bush Wars. To quote Bush: "fool me once, shame on shame on you. Fool me you can't git fooled again."