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Living with the Enemy
A new phenomenon in anti-capitalist activism is the convergence of environmentalist, social justice, labor, shareholder and consumerist movements in concerted and persistent attacks on the free market system, on capitalism itself. We see evidence in such websites as Anti-Capitalist Convergence and the cluster of interests that came together in the 1999 Seattle WTO riots, the 2000 Washington, D.C. World Bank protests, the 2001 Quebec City Economic Summit riots, and other proto-revolutionary acts.
The experience from concerted attack events provides activists with models we will see replicated elsewhere.
The relationships between attack groups in this convergence are extremely complicated and difficult to trace. There are shells within shells within shells. Assumed names are common. Ironically, the non-profit attack groups that scream loudest demanding full disclosure from the for-profit sector are themselves most secretive and invisible to public scrutiny. That is a subject requiring congressional attention.
The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise encourages concerned citizens to counter anti-capitalist activism by all legal means.
Stories of successful pro-business, pro-free-enterprise campaigns will be posted as they break.
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