[A-List] The Korean Crisis: Cui Bono

[MARGARET WYLES]

On 6/5/10, Tony B. <tal1 at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> Well said Todd. I've long hammered home on this point (i.e. seizing control
> of the communciations systems) as probably *the* key battelfield in the
> ideological war between right and left. Moreover, every time I've broached
> the issue to leaders of left and social democatic parties  (and even left
> publishers!) in Canada, they have visibly shrunk away from the issue; an
> issue that they seem not to clearly perceive as central rather than
> peripheral to their political activities. When I've brought up such notions
> (just for example) as deploying relatively small sums from some of the large
> union pension funds to finance a nation-wide labour / socialist newspaper
> ..difficult as this might be to implement...the very idea has been simply
> poopoohed and dismissed out of hand. [Which  is a general indicator of the
> level of co-optation of the union and 'social- democratic' leaderships in
> this country...and, of course, world-wide]. In lieu of that, and for the
> moment, as Todd say, we must counsel an active program both of grassroots
> independent media (including individual messaging 'lists')..and subversion
> and co-optation whereever possible (i.e. organizing large, rotating letter
> writing campaigns into local papers focused on the key issues of the day) of
>  the major dailies. Pirate radio stations, and local magazine production
> (aimed at both university students and poorer, factories, and poorer,
> working class neighbourhoods, funding the on-line media much more
> aggressively...anything and everything must be brought to bear in this
> ideological struggle. But the struggle itself (i.e. propaganda) must become
> clearly identified as central in the activist playbook...otherwise, as Todd
> says, 'they will keep winning'...
>
> Tony
>
What we REALLY need is someone like Mr. V from V for Vendetta to take
over the whole bloody thing, if only just long enough to get
everyone's attention.