V for Vendetta

[kamileon]

woody77 and I went and saw "V for Vendetta" tonight. It's really amazingly good, but it breaks my heart to watch it. I am too young to personally remember the Berkeley riots, or Stonewall, but I am old enough to remember Ruby Ridge, and Waco, and educated enough to know about the Bonus Army march during the great depression. And I have not yet

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[anonymous]

Being small is only a relative problem, as the Weather Underground demonstrated. Organizational structure and action techniques must compensate for any numerical disadvantage a group faces. Of course, one cannot fight a whole revolution in this manner. It may plausibly be used to effect unrest--possibly causing enough to stir revolution.

[kamileon]

Oh look, an idealist.

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[anonymous]

Not an idealist, just someone with tendancies towards idealism, with an appreciation for the real. For instance, America was founded by such idealists. These idealists realized that the prevailing norms favored the imperial power of the time: therefore they violated those norms (mores, even) by adopting proto-guerilla tactics, and... you get the point