revolutionairy practice

as with many things anarchistic, revolutionairy, revolutionaire practice has been a fashion.

as with many things it usually get's to narrowly interpreted in practice. and as with many things,
it doesn't allways matter.

basically the role of the revolution is (i think), "if they shoot we shoot back".

when it happens sudden, it achieves a lot. recent uprisings and the masses, but also the reason for militairy coups. revolution of the tiny masses, so to say.

nazism features the idea of a tiny coup btw. i would pose it is a common trait of the european nationalisms.

nationalism is crazy and weird. ideologically the northafrican people have a lot of background,
we don't have to expect to much confirmation of the usual "arab world". what is the use for them if a popular revolt for freedom would become rewarded.

it is hard to guess where the real sentiments lay here in the "west". nobody has the slightest of interventionist intentions, dumping some "diplomats" in the night in a heli might just be an okish manner to achieve a contact, the libyans apparently need organisational aid for the rebel forces.

talking about those, the numbers are somewhat obscure. the need for that is not wholly obvious.
i would guess, and hope .., some 30 deaths a day, but i figure that is completely naive.
it is quite as possible there are hundreds, i would not even know for sure at what side.

however, just sending weapons is bad strategy, weapons dont largely contribute to peace usually.
with food and other aid a similar thing is a problem, by supplying you allways create some sort of dependence.

perhaps just inherently, that you supply things that are supplied to allow "the struggle",
perhaps by the usual means, corruption, control, police, and their counterparts.
sometimes through the army, and basically allways when the infrastructure to handle those supplies is doubtfull.

however little you want to occupy a nation, it is obviously one of the most helpfull things to have enough people on the ground to deal with anything that might happen,

the rebels should, i think, but much depends wether the struggle was merely bloody or for the greater part symbolic, consolidate some of their gains, and make sure they are practiced and probably also prepared for any further events. it's not smart to waste masses of young people in offensives.

first kadaffi needs to be contained,
either through negotiation and for example exile, and next as a danger to the libyans, around him or opposed to him. the best would be if those two still can and will find agreement.

obviously that would mean there is room for one dictator less, it is also obvious it is in the interest of the libyans around khadaffi to settle for one peacefull libya.

the opposition has asked for nothing else. what good would a civil war, and large scale persecutions still bring along the north african coast?

surgical strikes can be okish. it is a transparance thing, if the concept and practice are not used beyond their purpose they can deescalate, or litterally disarm, such confrontations.

all these things and steps do need recognition. from the libyans, their neighbours, but rather the ('arab' amongst) more remote powers. otherways such interventions can be explained to any badly informed public (there is plenty) , as interventionism.

wich is not the point, but you cannot change the course of warfare without intervening.

there is still very much dishonourfull in warfare, the peacefull solution will allways be the better for all of us.

the beauty and the beast

The television wasn't a pleasing sight, cocky voices.. promoting a silly late night show, (how much time does it take you to send a mail, and how will you unzip a metropole before a village) In wich an SP voter is a traitor, an anarchist, them is him, and loads of talk about future coalitions, with media proclaiming the results are not sure yet every 3 seconds whole evening. Just as usual.
Sorry i have seen the show before. The morning after was a headache.

A bunch of jurist(?) wondering through the only town with paper-votes given big due that it would make any difference,
That they walked the streets and checked the contents of i dunno what, the voting room i think.

Noone really needs to believe it. The word jurist is supposed to do the magic trick in an evening of crappy texts about the SP. In this blog about mass media i point out they could have stayed polite.
It means we can only win by not being lead into a civilwar like situation.
Thats the nasty part of it. If they are not polite.

The right wing is shouting: anarchists won the elections, But in fact nothing changed. The silencer stole most of the votes and just as usually dumped them to the extreme right. The scenario includes some 'sectarianism' ,where honestly no dutch seem very christian at all. Use every bias you can to defeat the socialists, it's still a horrible day.

The worst thing is that when you consider how many more people went voting,
the result is very extreme right, without much reason, but the fear of the rich.
A preparation for a fake future.

On with the brighter sides.

Everyone has to agree the left won. Because evryone knows. Everyone that thinks twice realises they xenophobiacs are all but ready to hand over power, or even think of sharing it. They boiled a happy, fascist to the selfexclaimed extreme right mass, supposedly to side with the christians.

otoh the SP, the dogmatic left , won so undeniably , they really got some seats.
Jan the leader is really glad, and has had a great say in the seat distrubtion i would think. After all its one thing that the far majority of the dutch want a structural leftisht plan , the rich do feel bad. (they should considering they try to have the poorer kill another instead improving.)

However the good side, is we get a chance to deepen the involvement of the sp.
And other socialist party's.
The centre socialist : pvda feel rather encouraged, knowing so many people
have an ideal of solidarity.
And glinstering eyes balkenende (oh how glad with his hollywood potter image) , the christian prime minister, is full of joy for the wonderfull show of unity and trust in another we made. Its beginning to get into their frozen minds we are not the criminals , when we have our moments.

Take care that in a few days they will try something really lousy, they always do that after they realised they failed to make us belief in their ridiculous fascist paranoia's, in elections. (The democrats in US did that so you can bet they have some mean things ready here.)

That is why although there is no reason to shout, perhaps we are to get another chance to proof our socialist selves. Let's get to work and do politics. We'll wipe them so thoroughly worldwide now and forever, soon they will have to admit to peace.