Effectiveness vs. Psuedo Hypocrisy

Ran Prieur interview by Tim Boucher:

"A lot of people, especially middle class liberals, think that opposing something consists of avoiding guilt, being pure, keeping your hands clean. To me, opposing is simply about fighting well...

During the Seattle WTO uprising, there was a much-circulated photo of a kid with a Nike shoe kicking in the Niketown window. The affluent puritans saw this as hypocrisy, but if you think through the logic, they're saying that the substance of resistance is refusing to wear a shoe with a certain symbol, and kicking in a fucking window is just pretention. They've got it backwards! The way I see it is, he was using the enemy's own artifact against it. Imagine if all Nike shoes were put on feet and used to break Nike windows! My position is, not only is it OK to use the resources of this system to break it down and build something better, ideally all the resources of this system would be used that way."