"Civil disobedience to awaken the public doesn't work on national and international issues anymore. There are only two ways that still work, either become a part of the system and attack it from within or become a domestic terrorist and fight it from without."
The kind of there-is-no-alternative reformism you are advocating is alarmingly reductive.
In the early 1970s, a split emerged between German feminist and student movements, the former using direct action in a campaign to liberalise abortion laws, the later instigating what you are arguing for, Rudi Dutschke’s ‘long march through the institutions’. By 1974, the former had set up autonomously managed and financed women’s centres sporadically throughout West Germany. These helped to shift attention from staid, patriarchal traditions to decentralised sites of autonomy. The German Green Party, the later, were initially organised around similar sentiments: consensus, antihierarchy and a countercultural lifestyle. Their more theoretical wing, Alternative Liste had close ties with the Berlin squatters movement in the early 1980s and were crucial in representing their agenda to the city's parliament. With time however, the more radical aspects of the Green Party withered and they became targets of groups organised around principles of autonomy and direct action. I would argue the German Green Party have today become entirely co-opted by the institutions they were set up to change.
You did of course have domestic terrorists active in this period too. The Red Army Faction were centrally organised militant insurgents in operation from 1970 until 1998. They had a more rigid ideology and identity than the German feminist movement but were as equally antagonistic towards authority and marginalisation at the global periphery. While initially engaged in attacks on the 'character masks' of capitalism, they quickly fell into cycles of violence designed solely to coerce the release of imprisoned members. I agree with you that this is most often an unnecessarily/unacceptable way to go about achieving change.
Climate Camp has long been organised along similar autonomous principles to the German feminist movement. This is very different to the centralised hierarchy of the Green Party and the Red Army Faction (analogous to the two options you are offering). Climate Camp believe that this prefiguration of self-determination is crucial to achieving change - Ghandi's 'be the change you want to see'.
"You can't expect a lethargic, apathetic public to support you even on something as blatantly obvious as halting global climate change and pollution poisoning everyone."
This second part of your argument seems to negate the former. If support isn't to be expected, then what would it achieve to become part of a representational democratic system? Is government so corrupt that democracy doesn't work; that the only way to get something done through 'bribes'? If that's the case, then the climate movement has lost already – the coffers of industry are far deeper than those of political activists.
As I understand it the climate movement in Europe is currently at something of an impasse. Following the COP15 a rift seems to have emerged between those who want to push past climate change to tackle what they see as the core of the issue (capitalist industry's blatant disregard for the environment), and those who believe that the immediacy of the climate threat demands a liberal movement from within the institutions (http://www.anarchist-studies.org/node/423). Sound familiar? Perhaps this is not unlike what happened in Germany forty years ago. It remains to be seen what groups will emerge, what politics they will espouse, what methods they will employ and what forms of organisation they will follow.
Clearly there are many ways to go about achieving social change. I'm not sure what you think has changed in the last forty years but your obscurantist one-or-the-other rhetoric reeks of the very neoliberal ideology contemporary activists so stringently oppose.
Diddums. Casey Affleck admits that he ‘went broke’ filming his fail movie with Joaquin Phoenix. The movie, I’m Still Here, was filmed over two years and was revealed to be a fake documentary-style movie that Affleck thought anyone with two working eyes and ears would be fooled by. The film showed Phoenix, who would have made interesting material without the pretentious/ staged nature of the movie, doing coke/ hookers and getting pooped on. Or, as I like to call it ‘Wednesday’. That’s some mid-week pAArtying and moviegoers agreed. Affleck’s movie went up against his big brother’s movie, The Town (which topped the US box office and opened on Rotten Tomatoes to a 93% fresh rating), and only took $96,658 in its opening weekend. Sucks to be the less talented brother, and there’s something I never thought I’d say of these two. Speaking to The Telegraph in the UK, Affleck says he came clean about the hoax everyone knew about so as not to permanently damage Phoenix’s reputation. The movie was supposed to be a cynical look at Hollywood and its trappings. Not poop.
Casey Affleck has admitted that I’m Still Here, his hoax documentary about Joaquin Phoenix, was a “planned, staged and scripted work of fiction” that nearly bankrupted him. Affleck said the project was an essay on celebrity culture. “It was pretty much all within the realm of possibility: people use prostitutes, people use drugs, especially in Hollywood. We didn’t take it so far that it wasn’t believable,” he told The Daily Telegraph. “Having something at stake is a great motivator and once this thing became public for me that was very helpful because there was no question: I had to see it through, no matter how long it took. I went broke. I hadn’t worked for more than a year, and I was pouring money into the movie. I had to stop for a month to do The Killer Inside Me. If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have been able to finish the film – I was out of money. There was a lot at stake financially and, if we had left [the hoax] there, it would have been very damaging to Joaquin’s career.”
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"Civil disobedience to awaken the public doesn't work on national and international issues anymore. There are only two ways that still work, either become a part of the system and attack it from within or become a domestic terrorist and fight it from without."
The kind of there-is-no-alternative reformism you are advocating is alarmingly reductive.
In the early 1970s, a split emerged between German feminist and student movements, the former using direct action in a campaign to liberalise abortion laws, the later instigating what you are arguing for, Rudi Dutschke’s ‘long march through the institutions’. By 1974, the former had set up autonomously managed and financed women’s centres sporadically throughout West Germany. These helped to shift attention from staid, patriarchal traditions to decentralised sites of autonomy. The German Green Party, the later, were initially organised around similar sentiments: consensus, antihierarchy and a countercultural lifestyle. Their more theoretical wing, Alternative Liste had close ties with the Berlin squatters movement in the early 1980s and were crucial in representing their agenda to the city's parliament. With time however, the more radical aspects of the Green Party withered and they became targets of groups organised around principles of autonomy and direct action. I would argue the German Green Party have today become entirely co-opted by the institutions they were set up to change.
You did of course have domestic terrorists active in this period too. The Red Army Faction were centrally organised militant insurgents in operation from 1970 until 1998. They had a more rigid ideology and identity than the German feminist movement but were as equally antagonistic towards authority and marginalisation at the global periphery. While initially engaged in attacks on the 'character masks' of capitalism, they quickly fell into cycles of violence designed solely to coerce the release of imprisoned members. I agree with you that this is most often an unnecessarily/unacceptable way to go about achieving change.
Climate Camp has long been organised along similar autonomous principles to the German feminist movement. This is very different to the centralised hierarchy of the Green Party and the Red Army Faction (analogous to the two options you are offering). Climate Camp believe that this prefiguration of self-determination is crucial to achieving change - Ghandi's 'be the change you want to see'.
"You can't expect a lethargic, apathetic public to support you even on something as blatantly obvious as halting global climate change and pollution poisoning everyone."
This second part of your argument seems to negate the former. If support isn't to be expected, then what would it achieve to become part of a representational democratic system? Is government so corrupt that democracy doesn't work; that the only way to get something done through 'bribes'? If that's the case, then the climate movement has lost already – the coffers of industry are far deeper than those of political activists.
As I understand it the climate movement in Europe is currently at something of an impasse. Following the COP15 a rift seems to have emerged between those who want to push past climate change to tackle what they see as the core of the issue (capitalist industry's blatant disregard for the environment), and those who believe that the immediacy of the climate threat demands a liberal movement from within the institutions (http://www.anarchist-studies.org/node/423). Sound familiar? Perhaps this is not unlike what happened in Germany forty years ago. It remains to be seen what groups will emerge, what politics they will espouse, what methods they will employ and what forms of organisation they will follow.
Clearly there are many ways to go about achieving social change. I'm not sure what you think has changed in the last forty years but your obscurantist one-or-the-other rhetoric reeks of the very neoliberal ideology contemporary activists so stringently oppose.
Diddums. Casey Affleck admits that he ‘went broke’ filming his fail movie with Joaquin Phoenix. The movie, I’m Still Here, was filmed over two years and was revealed to be a fake documentary-style movie that Affleck thought anyone with two working eyes and ears would be fooled by. The film showed Phoenix, who would have made interesting material without the pretentious/ staged nature of the movie, doing coke/ hookers and getting pooped on. Or, as I like to call it ‘Wednesday’. That’s some mid-week pAArtying and moviegoers agreed. Affleck’s movie went up against his big brother’s movie, The Town (which topped the US box office and opened on Rotten Tomatoes to a 93% fresh rating), and only took $96,658 in its opening weekend. Sucks to be the less talented brother, and there’s something I never thought I’d say of these two. Speaking to The Telegraph in the UK, Affleck says he came clean about the hoax everyone knew about so as not to permanently damage Phoenix’s reputation. The movie was supposed to be a cynical look at Hollywood and its trappings. Not poop.
Casey Affleck has admitted that I’m Still Here, his hoax documentary about Joaquin Phoenix, was a “planned, staged and scripted work of fiction” that nearly bankrupted him. Affleck said the project was an essay on celebrity culture. “It was pretty much all within the realm of possibility: people use prostitutes, people use drugs, especially in Hollywood. We didn’t take it so far that it wasn’t believable,” he told The Daily Telegraph. “Having something at stake is a great motivator and once this thing became public for me that was very helpful because there was no question: I had to see it through, no matter how long it took. I went broke. I hadn’t worked for more than a year, and I was pouring money into the movie. I had to stop for a month to do The Killer Inside Me. If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have been able to finish the film – I was out of money. There was a lot at stake financially and, if we had left [the hoax] there, it would have been very damaging to Joaquin’s career.”
Casey Affleck, Joaquin Phoenix: I’m Still Here mockumentary movie trailer.
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