[matilda] Moles.

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Thanks a lot Gavin,  i'm setting your text on the Wiki.

:-)

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gavin at cyber-rights.net wrote:

>Some text about moles, either as an addition to Ben's text or a 
>seperate thing to go on a wall in the building somewhere:....
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>But the revolution is thoroughgoing. It is still traveling through 
>purgatory. It does its work methodically...And when it has 
>accomplished this... Europe will leap from its seat and exult: Well 
>burrowed, old mole!
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>- Karl Marx, Eighteenth Brumiare
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>Marx tried to understand the cycle of working class struggles that 
>were emerging in nineteenth century Europe in terms of a mole and 
>its subterranean tunnels. The mole would surface from below in 
>joyous revolutionary moments which developed from the ground up 
>(1830, 1848...). Between these joyous moments, the mole moves 
>underground, not to hide passively, but to dig out new paths, 
>finding new possibilities for subversion. 
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>We can try and understand the new global cycle of struggles against 
>twentieth century capitalism in terms of a 'tribe of moles.' The 
>moles burrow out a series of North West passages to a multiplicity 
>of new worlds and new ways of living - from Argentinian factory 
>occupations to the Indymedia network, to Reclaim the Streets, to 
>social centres like this one around the globe. Alternatives built 
>from the ground up by ordinairy people, digging out a space for 
>themselves to live despite the pressures of work and money.
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