Reply #5: Actually there's several good answers here, IMO [View All]

[socialist_n_TN]

I think that the election of Obama was the last gasp of the "reformist" element. We thought that Obama would work for US within the system and we wouldn't have to resort to this type of militant action. When he didn't because he was unwilling or unable or some combination of the two, a lot of people (and more every day) are seeing the impotence of the reformist method of fighting back. Ergo, we have these types of actions.

BTW, I wouldn't put Wisconsin in the same category as the Longview situation. Maybe it was timing, but Wisconsin lost a BIG chance to actually DO something to stop Scott Walker when it put all of it's eggs in the reformist basket with the recalls. That reformist decision dissipated the energy in Wisconsin and resulted in a LOSS for the working class. I guess you could possibly consider THAT the last gasp of the reformist attitude and not the election of Obama.

We're going to have to get militant and, yes, ILLEGAL in methods in order to have an ACTUAL effect in the class war. That doesn't necessarily mean we have to become violent, but we can't let arrest stop us.