Georgia Tech student shot dead by cops

[Ele'ill]

This past Saturday, a Georgia Tech student was shot to death by campus police. Scout Schultz was president of pride alliance on campus, and they got shot during an LGBTQ demo.

This site has a full video of the shooting up the last I checked. https://nypost.com/2017/09/17/georgi...lgbtq-protest/


Tonight there was a vigil, with chants of fuck the police, and a cop car got torched amidst more brutality from the police.

[Ele'ill]

a communique written by a friend of Scout

http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-rant...-scout-schultz

I write with an intense fear that my friend and comrade’s memory will be forgotten, whitewashed, and erased. I wish to make it clear that Scout Schultz was an anarchist, a revolutionary, and a comrade I could trust with my life. I write this in spite of the cowardice of liberal friends and acquaintances who fear that such radical tendencies would be relegated and dismissed to the realms of madness by institutional voices.

[TomLeftist]

You are right, I don't understand why a section of the USA left is so legalist, so moralist, so square, so stright, so pacific. And despise, reject any revolutionary violence. They believe blindly in elections and they support laws. Legalism, moralism and pacifism one of the greatest impediments of socialism rising to power

a communique written by a friend of Scout

http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-rant...-scout-schultz

[ckaihatsu]

You are right, I don't understand why a section of the USA left is so legalist, so moralist, so square, so stright, so pacific. And despise, reject any revolutionary violence. They believe blindly in elections and they support laws. Legalism, moralism and pacifism one of the greatest impediments of socialism rising to power

I call this dynamic 'groupthink'.

We're generally expected to view cops, etc., as being 'professionals' -- sticking to the letter of the law instead of to mere personal whims, for any given situation -- but in practice their 'tribe' often comes first, with group self-preservation factoring in over any prevailing of *justice* for those murdered by police officers.

On the other hand, no one in society can be blamed for wanting *some* kind of societal 'order', and thus capitalism has the 'public sector' (state) that attempts to adjudicate / referee over inevitable intra-class and class-based conflicts that arise in the normal course of doing business.

Much of *my* motivation for being a revolutionary is to find how a new kind of societal 'order' can be formulated and implemented, so as to assure those who might be on-the-fence otherwise, them knowing that a much better global social arrangement is possible (socialism, communism), but who still harbor reservations on *how* it could actually be done, especially in a most-likely-necessary violent transition away from bourgeois rule, to workers power over social production.

[The Intransigent Faction]

You are right, I don't understand why a section of the USA left is so legalist, so moralist, so square, so stright, so pacific. And despise, reject any revolutionary violence. They believe blindly in elections and they support laws. Legalism, moralism and pacifism one of the greatest impediments of socialism rising to power

Maybe the notion that we can "build revolution behind the backs of the ruling class" is tempting for some people. It (deceptively) offers the possibility of substantive change, or at least the supposed groundwork for such change, with significantly less risk or sacrifice involved.