"activism"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Dec 3 09:28:44 PST 1998


Alex LoCascio wrote:


>The fact of the matter is that most "activism" in this
>country IS reformist and NOT ideological.

And a lot of the "activists" I've come across are proudly, deeply anti-intellectual - a perfect mirror image of those intellectuals who are proudly, deeply anti-activist (e.g. Jameson's denunciation of Bob Fitch for being an "activist"). An opposition that leads to the impoverishment of both.

Doug



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