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Reform Versus Revolution

It has always seemed that there's been a burning down Starbucks will catch the
conflict between reformers and public eye, and make it a social issue.
revolutionaries. The former relatively The tactic of bambing Starbucks, for
being described as those who want to example, might only have a monetary
patch up and repair the parts of the damage on a corporation that uses foreign
current system that cause so much misery. slave labor for coffee beans, maybe
The latter relatively being described as $20,000 or $30,000. From the stand point
those who want to completely overturn the of the urban guerilla, that is the point
social system in favor of a different of the activity. But, this bombing puts
system, one much more applicable to the corporate practices of Starbucks in to
wants and desires of human society. The the spotlight of society. People will be
chief aim of both has been thus: to forced to look at it and deal with it as
change the current order of society an issue. A single bombing might very
insomuch that the lives of people (and well have a greater spread of ideas and
animals, perhaps) are considerably beliefs than a ten thousand printed and
improved. Both the reformer and the distributed pamphlets. Essentially,
revolutionary are motivated by the same these urban guerillas would be satisfying
cause; they are plants to the same the philosophy of Martin Luther King: by
fertilizer. Their aim is to improve the making an issue of the matter, people
lot of mankind -- to change those faults must recognize it and deal with it. King
which have become inherent parts of accomplished his goal by marching in the
life.One of the most common assaults made streets, being ripped to shreds by attack
against the reformer by the revolutionary dogs of the police, beating beaten by
is this: by reforming the system, by cops in riot gear.So, the first purpose
making small changes, my patching up of urban guerillas is economic damage.
small parts of the system, we are doing For preventing the corporate entity from
nothing but making the system more gaining profits, that means the entire
livable, making the people more tolerant social structure breaks down. That means
of the status quo. For example, during that no money will be funnelled to
the French Revolution, the efforts of all Vietnamese sweatshops so that children
reformers (if there were any) were work 12 hours a day. That means no
completely ineffective. Nothing was bribes are going to be made to the shifty
patched up. Nothing was changed. The governments of third world countrties.
commonplace misery of the greater 95% of In an international Capitalist society
the population, caused by the social where money is power, by inflicting
relationships, was enough to motivate the economic damage on these creatures of
mass of people to revolt and overthrow doomsday, we are eliminating their power,
their government. It was their misery, their strength. That is to say, we are
their pain, the suffering they had hindering their ability to exploit the
endured, that made them in to citizens and workers of all countries.
revolutionaries. Reformers, the And, beyond that, to act as a current and
revolutionary intellectual argues, standing threat to the corporations, to
prevent that misery from existing, and stand as the defender of internationally
thus, they prevent revolutionary understood rights of the people.
tendencies from taking place. For Corporate entities will be much more
example, reformers in the United States hesitant to engage in activities that
have created a Minimum Wage law, have bring with them a constant barrage of
sustained fair working conditions in bombings, property defacement, etc.,
manufacturing plants, have created etc..The second purpose, and perhaps the
unemployment payments, have erected often unintended purpose, of
numerous public works programs -- all revolutionary activity is to bring the
things that have alleviated the miseries issue to the spotlight, to make society
of the working class in the United look at these guerillas and understand
States. If none of these things had been their reasons. Sure, the great deal of
put in to place, if none of these reforms conservative, right-wingers will argue
were given acceptance by the government, that these men are deviants of the social
then the working class would be pretty order, an unintended consequence,
pissed off -- they would become probably spawned by mental illness and
revolutionaries from the 16 to 20 hour the inability to adaptate to society's
working days, the repression of the will wants. The same was said of Martin
of the workers, the massive amounts of Luther King, of the Communists and the
poverty and unemployment, etc., etc.. If Socialists and the Anarchists, of all
the conditions in the United States were people who wanted to improve society and
worsened, then working proletariat would make the lives of all much easier. In
be so moved as to revolt against the fact, sometimes this second purpose is
class system, and they would create a the primary purpose. There are many
genuinely Libertarian Communist social Animal Liberation Front/A.L.F. cells
order.At least, that is the argument (known as "terrorist organizations" to
presented by those people wearing the the government) which break in to testing
title "Revolutionary." I think an laboratories with video cameras. Many of
example or two is sufficient to prove them obtain video tapes from the testing
them wrong. Consider again, the French facility. These tapes are then mailed to
Revolution. The misery and poverty of the major news media outlets, and they
the working class instigated them to are often played on national television;
overthrowing the ruling class. However, the public then is made aware of the
what was the result? Did they erect this cruelty that is inherent in animal
genuniely Libertarian, testing and experimentation. Lewis
Anarcho-Communist-Syndicalist social Heine, the photographer of the early
order? Did they create a society free of 1900's, was capable of sneaking in to
censorship, free of repression, free of many factories and manufacturing plants,
sexism, free of racism, free of disguised as an official of the census
exploitive social relationships? No, bureau; upon gaining access, he would
they did not. What was enacted was the photograph the children laboring in
Jacobin philosophy, that of a Federated machines, many of them physically
Republican government. That is to say, deformed by the environment that they
what they created upon the eve of were working in. It was these photos
revolution, was a system of government that greatly aided the elimination of
that the reformers had been aiming to child labor from the United States and
create. If we took away the hard-earned all European countries. (I'm quite
rights that labor has earned in the curious as to why the government hasn't
United States (minimum wage, overtime ever labelled this man as a terrorist,
pay, etc.), if we took all of those away, despite the fact that his tactics are
and a revolution were to take place nearly identical to those of the A.L.F..)
because fo that, I think it's pretty It was through the use of these tactics
obvious what kind of government the that the goals of these revolutionaries
revolutionaries would set up. They would were accomplished, by forcing the public
create a government that wasn't much to acknowledge the issue.So, then, in
different than the previous one, the conclusion, what is the greatest way to
primary differences being a fair minimum advance the political ideology that you
wage law, overtime pay, non-hazardous hold dear? What way is most effective in
work conditions, etc., etc..I think the advancing Animal Liberation, in
essential message here is that revolution destroying the Corporate State, in
alone does convince people of the establishing an Anarcho-Syndicalist
arguments of Anarchism, Socialism, Federation? Is it reform, that is to
Communism, etc., etc.. That is to say, say, the peaceful and lawful changing of
the arguments of those who want to opinions, through pamphleteering,
radically reorganize society so that distribution of propaganda, etc., etc.?
human misery and want nearly disappear Or, is it revolution, that is to say,
completely. That does not mean that breaking the law as a means and method to
revolution itself is a completely useless accomplishing your goal? In the past,
tool, without any relation to the class both tactics have managed to gain ground,
struggles that take place everyday in to accomplish their goals. Harriet
modern society. In fact, what use is Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther
revolutionary activity? Does it have any King, John Brown, every person who served
valuable, useful aspects to it? I in the revolutionary forces to accomplish
suppose I am of the opinion, "No Peace and sustain the civil rights of all
Without Justice." I cannot see justice, people -- the term terrorist that is
in a people laying down, to make it applied to A.L.F. and Anarcho-Syndicalist
easier for their oppressors to steal cells equally applies to these people.
their labor and destroy their culture. In some of the cases, their tactics were
Not only is such an idea devoid of succesful in making the enemy weaker, so
justice, but it is equally devoid of that the deathblow would be much more
sense and common reasoning. Let's take succinct and easy. The reformers, of
some examples... The French Resistance which we can count Henry Stephens Salt,
to the Nazi invasion of France; did these Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Green
underground revolutionaries Ingersoll, among so many countless other
("terrorists") help to better serve their names, were successful in some efforts
purpose? Were they wrong for secretly and unsuccessful in others. To which
building bombs to be used in destroying road should we take? It is clear that I
fortifications of the Third Reich? I have taken the road of the reformer, to
don't think of any person would disagree convince the minds of men and women of
to this argument, excepting maybe alternative theories of social order,
Gandhi.Consider a more modern argument. that a collective effort can be willed
Consider American and European into existence, to change our living
revolutionaries today, "urban guerillas," conditions. Whether a person decides to
etc., etc.. It was an Anarchist who shot take the road I have, or the road of the
President McKinley on his inauguration revolutionary, I do not think anything
day, because of McKinley's invasion Cuba should be held against a person for their
and other islands in the area. It was decision, unless it is clear that their
the Anarchist Alexander Berkman who actions simply inhibit the achieving of
assasinated Frick, a Capitalist whose our goals. Life,Punkerslut (or Andy
idea of "humaneness" was working in Carloff) has been writing essays and
dangerous conditions for low and unfair poetry on social issues which have caught
pay. But then again, the way governments his attention for several years. His
and corporations respond to such website provides a complete list of all
industrial sabotage and warfare, is of these writings. His life experience
usually with a repression of civil includes homelessness, squating in New
liberties. It does not make the enemy Orleans and LA, dropping out of high
more sympathetic to the cause of these school, getting expelled from college for
radicals. At least, not necessarily. "subversive activities," and a myriad of
There is a good chance that the other revolutionary actions.
activities of bombing McDonald's and




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