Reply #97: It's not hypocritical to use your computer to work for socialism.

[Ken Burch]

When anti-apartheid activists(most of whom were leftists) in South Africa used radio to issue communiques in a revolutionary struggle, they were using a medium popularized and spread by corporations that traded with the white minority regime. Would you call them hypocrites for doing that?

the 19th Century Marxists and anarchists used printing presses that were originally built for and by capitalists, often under horrible conditions. By you, was THAT hypocrisy?

Even when they used pencil and paper to write manifestos and passed them hand-to-hand, those were made in privately-owned factories and pulp mills, for the most part. If they took them to other locations, they probably rode on capitalist-built transportation systems(trains or streetcars). Were THEY hypocrites?

If you took your argument here to its logical conclusion, Clintonista, you'd end up arguing that it is hypocritical for leftists to communicate through any other means than standing in the street shouting out their messages at the tops of their lungs, without microphones. And they'd have to be naked, since most clothing companies are owned by capitalists.

Why are you so obsessed with shouting down people to your left? It's not as if we're doing anything to harm you, for God's sake.