@ Sagan's Ghost
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/18/joe-stack-statement-alleg_n_467539.html?page=2
Joe Stack was sick and tired of the corrupt, capitalist system. The IRS like the rest of the state is an agent of the bourgeoisie. If you look at his statement Stack talks about how Washington only listens to the rich, about how tax codes are written for the benefit of the rich (and he's right. The reason we have such a convoluted tax code is because when ever some rich guy can benefit from a change in the code they write it in), and how it is interpreted and enforced differently depending on if you're rich or poor.
He even talks about how other people have suffered and how that personally touched him.
At the end he even says:
"The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed."
I don't approve of what he did but this was not some selfish, retard, dumbfuck. This was a smart man who truly saw the system for what it is and who cared about not just his misery and suffering but that of all people suffering because of the system. You show your own ignorance when you hurl insults like that at this man.
It is absolutely shameless that the right tries to claim people like Joe Stack as their own. And it's even more shameless that supposedly progressive people wind up condemning not just his act(which I condemn too) but his intelligence and his views based on what the right says. Its just like how all the baseless accusations of Obama being a Muslim or a socialist or a noncitizen has gotten people on the left(or who think they are on the left) defending Obama.
The right-wing(liberals) and the ultra-right-wing(conservatives) keep criticizing each other and it makes it look like those are our only choices. They both serve the bourgeoisie. They try to make themselves look like they're the only choice. It's like good cop/bad cop. I'm not playing that game. I choose no cop!
I recommend you read some Marx, Bakunin, Proudhon, Kropotkin, Herbert Marcuse, Howard Zinn, Noam Chompsky, and some other socialist authors and you might learn something.
