utgibbs
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I've been thinking about the youth riots in England.
Obviously, the police shot an unarmed black man - fairly common here - and then tried to cover it up by shooting one of their own radios. This sparked a legitimate, and initially peaceful, protest march that turned violent when the police interfered again. I would say the first nights of riot was absolutely legitimate political violence. This little fact has been swept under the rug in the bourgeois history (as it always is).
Then the teenagers took to the streets to pick up as much swag as they could. In a way, this was simply a reenactment of what they see from the adults in their culture. MPs had fiddled their expenses, the bankers defraud the poor and pay themselves enormous sums for sending the economy into a depression, the Welfare Dads loot the public treasury with impunity, good English Victorians have been looting the lands of the "lesser breeds without the law" for a long, long, long time.
Retrograde and deeply reactionary figures like David Cameron will moralize, without socks, about order, morality, and family values. He comes from the stock of the Great Looters, wealth amassed on the backs of slaves and coolies - with a generous helping from the profits of war.
There will be retrograde figures among you who will deny this, but I think the teenagers on the street know it very well.
Obviously, the police shot an unarmed black man - fairly common here - and then tried to cover it up by shooting one of their own radios. This sparked a legitimate, and initially peaceful, protest march that turned violent when the police interfered again. I would say the first nights of riot was absolutely legitimate political violence. This little fact has been swept under the rug in the bourgeois history (as it always is).
Then the teenagers took to the streets to pick up as much swag as they could. In a way, this was simply a reenactment of what they see from the adults in their culture. MPs had fiddled their expenses, the bankers defraud the poor and pay themselves enormous sums for sending the economy into a depression, the Welfare Dads loot the public treasury with impunity, good English Victorians have been looting the lands of the "lesser breeds without the law" for a long, long, long time.
Retrograde and deeply reactionary figures like David Cameron will moralize, without socks, about order, morality, and family values. He comes from the stock of the Great Looters, wealth amassed on the backs of slaves and coolies - with a generous helping from the profits of war.
There will be retrograde figures among you who will deny this, but I think the teenagers on the street know it very well.
