Published Date 01/10/11 11:50
The is a lot of self destructive behavior in left/progressive organising, an old example the Monty Python sketch VIDEO
Am looking at concepts that describe this. Power politics is a state of international relations in which sovereigns protect their own interests by threatening one another with military , economic , or political aggression.
Power politics is essentially a way of understanding the world of international relations: nations compete for the world's resources and it is to a nation's advantage to be manifestly able to harm others. It prioritizes national self-interest over the interest of other nations or the international community .
Techniques of power politics include, but are not limited to, conspicuous nuclear development, pre-emptive strike , blackmail , the massing of military units on a border, the imposition of tariffs or economic sanctions , bait and bleed and bloodletting, hard and soft balancing , buck passing , covert operations , shock and awe and asymmetric warfare .
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_politics
Can people think of examples of how this manifests in smaller world of activist organising?