Tactics, strategy of vision?

To often we try to oppose war like chickens with our heads cut off. In action--myself included--we're simulataneously pacifists, militants, propagandists, civil-disciplinarians, activists and soap box preachers. But all the necessities of the moment don't really ever allow us to focus enough to reach our potential of effectiveness. We let reformists spokespeople speak on our behalves telling the camera or yelling through the bullhorn that this or that lame politician is gonna deliver us to a better way. Or we let these organizations with dubious politics behind their front groups lead us like the tail wagging the dog. And in all this haze, we loose sight of how opposing the war could and should be part of a continuous opposition to the capitalist system through fresh visions of a better way of living. ________-communism (insert: anarchist, libertarian--or--just plain communism or socialism) or whatever you call a liberated way of being in a world without the exploitation and oppressions of this one.

How to get there is what I'm interested in discussing. The formulas of the past are not only boring, but--worse--they don't fucking work. I would hate to keep reinventing the wheel--I see this anti-war movement duplicating the SAME mistakes that weakened the anti-Gulf War movement in 1991. And so many groups and individuals seem to keep going back to the same ineffective "activist playbook" and blindly doing it by rote, without making it fresh and applicable to the CURRENT conditions. Which unforunately opens the can of worms for meanlingless arguments--to us namby-pamby Americans--like violence/non-violence. People in places like Chiapas or the industrial estates of South Korea don't even waste their breaths on such banal cul-de-sacs. You do whatever it takes to realize your vision. Compromise and capitulation to moral arguments leave the movement without the vital force it started with--changing the world--and instead devolves into spliting hairs in debating societies. Civil disobedience is fine. But don't turn it into a fetish and prevent others with more direct approaches. Watch the movie "Berkeley in the Sixties" to see how the "Stop the Draft" week, after initial failure, did shut the Oakland Induction Center down for a day by fighting the pigs for it. The protestors owned the streets and sent a powerful message to the ruling class: the costs for a war abroad will be paid by the rising costs of a war at home--a civil or revolutionary war (hopefully the latter). But this can't be done without vision or in another 20 years we'll have another asshole in the White House and we'll be debating the same issues about how to conduct the anti-war movement.

What do you think? I wan't constructive debate, not denunciation or annecdotal thoughts. Agree or disagree, but put forward ideas about building the LAST anti-war movement because through our efforts we'll realize a type of society that won't need war.

Carl