Re: [-empyre-] disrupting the right-right

["Kipper" <kipper@escapefromwoomera.org>]

> I don't know what happened after that, so I can't pretend to have a
> long view of the outcomes. just in that moment, on that day, it
> seemed honestly moving.
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sounds fantastic to me!

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> & i also want to ask kipper what she objects to about CAE's
> practice?

I don't know much about their practice, I just disagree with stuff they've
written about their political analysis that informs it.

In general, I get the impression that some media activists choose to solely
engage in 'media activism' (eg as opposed to street activism, mass public
actions etc.)  because they believe that the media itself is now the primary
theatre of anti-capitalist struggle

Specifically, the CAE champions this point of view, according to what I've
read. One of their major premises is a belief that creating media spectacle
was always the primary objective of activism (an interpretation which defies
the most basic principles of social movement building!). So now that in
recent decades huge budgets of government and capital have been employed to
ensure the forces supporting the status quo absolute monopoly over the means
of media manipulation, according to the CAE, public/mass/real-world actions
can no longer have any effect. And so they conclude that activists must
shift their action into the realm of the media itself.