notes towards "modes of resistance"

A comparative analysis of the revolutionary careers of Gunnar Sonsteby, who fought fascism in the 1940s, and Zack de la Rocka (sp?) , who fought it in the 1990s through today. With asides on Sonsteby's fellow traveler, Knut Haukelid (who at the height of the struggle blew up the heavy water plant essential to Hitler's efforts to attain the atom bomb) and de la Rocka's fellow traveller, KRS1 (who at the height of the struggle recorded a Sprite commercial [link]).

As Agent 24, Sonsteby eludes a massive manhunt as he carries out act after act of devastating sabotage against the occupiers. Wikipedia admirably summarizes his exploits: [....]*

De la Rocka, safe and free, becomes a millionaire sneering into a microphone about the horrors of American imperialism, mostly to affluent teenagers. Sonsteby's story ends with  German soldiers surrendering to the mercy of the people whose country they had occupied. De la Rocka's ends with the break up of Rage Against the Machine and George W. Bush swearing the Presidental oath.

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Ward Churchill of "little eichmann" fame. "I have consistently advocated a lawful solution." (wtte) Even the most radical academic revolutionary just wants to call the cops on the Nazis.

The harder you work to blur the distinction between the United States of America and Nazi Germany, the more I'm compelled to wonder at the passivity of your resistance. If you want to convince me, you can start by acting like you believe.

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Gunnar Sonsteby, the very sound of your name puts a warm cheery glow around my heart. To bask just one golden moment in your presence, to shake your hand and to thank you all you did for humanity, would be one of the high points of my existence.  I love you. But if you'd fought the Nazis with a wa wa pedal, I'd have to call you a douche bag.

"Fuck you I won't do what you tell me! Fuck you I won't do what you tell me! Fuck you I won't do what you tell me! Fuck you I won't do what you tell me! UGH!"

The profoundest obstacle to Socialism is socialisms: families. Marx and Engles understood this clearly. It was with good reason that they advocated for the abolition of the family. It was with good reason that they attacked inheritance rights. Inheritance rights are "a basic mechanism of class stratification." "Once you start putting away money for your children," wrote Will Durant, "you are halfway to becoming a conservative." Economic inequality is inevitable for so long as, and to the extent that, parents privilege their own children above the children of strangers.

I don't negotiate with theorists.

If I was as paranoid about computers as I believe myself to be, then I would not confide my fears onto my keyboard. I'd even watch what I said about computers when in their vicinity (and whenever are you now far from a computer?). Who knows what they hear? They have all the power now. The question is, do they know it?

The oldest proffesion is the only profession.