LETTER: Clicks was violent first
But we shouldn’t be surprised that the blame is being put on workers
Here’s how Mao Zedong describes a revolution: “A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
Those who complain about the EFF’s response to Clicks as “irresponsible and violent” are perhaps not aware that Clicks was being irresponsible and violent against black people. But why are we surprised? Isn’t it the capitalists that always call on workers to tighten their belts or observe the capitalist laws in fighting capitalism?..
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