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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
Thirdly, the Paris commune supports what I'm saying, there was a majority in Paris that wanted significant change and were prepared to take up arms to do so. Do you have a job? How many of your colleagues are prepared to take up arms against the government at the moment, or at any point during the course of the oncoming public spending cuts? Probably none.
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Just as an aside to this, I'm aware that there is quite a bit of meaningful, articulate and nuanced resistance going on; however, I do think the RATM for Christmas #1 pretty much represents the status of popular resistance in the UK at the moment. I know a few squatters (of the three major flavours - old-school, skag-dens and ex-law students) but they're so far in the minority as to be entirely alien to society, relative to free party-ers and yoghurt-weaving organic capitalists (and I should note, the latter two are very much a minority relative to homeowners and business people, who would be very well-served by the Tories).