| Abstract: | Unhappily, violence can be an effective form of political action. This is especially true when the violence is carried out by those on an upward economic curve, which was not the case in the Los Angeles riots. Compared to the ongoing eruptions in the former Yugoslavia, what happened in L.A. was not particularly violent, and, thankfully, the period of extreme life-threatening destructiveness did not last very long. Yet there was something special in world reaction to the riots that was not entirely due to their location (which is easily accessible to globally dominant American media) or to the immediate cause (what seemed to many to be a racially-mntivated institutional miscarriage of justice) |
