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>From: Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: seattle
>Date: Wed, Dec 1, 1999, 11:52 AM
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>>for now, a big welcome to the diverse, global and hopefully indigestible
>>figure of anti-capitalist struggle of the 21st c!
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>>Angela
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> Anti-capitalist, but pro-what?
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> Brad DeLong
you know, Brad ? I've been reading (listening or even "sensing") this kind of questions all my life. But we both know that having a "plan" isn't that good either. "Seattle" is what it is (and a little bit more). For instance, it is something "new". We've witnessed a new form of communication which brings people together (the same thing you've been talking about, when you talk of your child's school life and "taxation"). The very composition of whom is there should make us think over it. Such a diversity that remids me of the first time I've watched color tv. All in one place. And all the people that,finally, can speak out (through this wonder that we call Internet) even if not present in body. Have you read what Marta Russell wrote in this very list ?
"I wish I could be there to chain my power wheelchair to the front doors of the convention center. I'd like to see them get an accessible police van through that crowd to remove me. No way!"
This is the best "report from Seattle" I've read, so far. Sort of a "Manifesto". And it wasn't from there. Imagine that !
Now, we will have plenty of time to re-think about "Seattle"(the formation of a new kind of "multinational enterprise"), till then, it would be enough to think about the true enigma : "Is it possible to create without destroying?"
ciao, alessandro