Please elaborate? A desperate search for exceptions? Did you miss those 21kb of lefty civil society struggles against the 1994-99 neolib policies and personalities of the SA state? (I didn't even get to anti-corporate and anti-IMF/WB campaigning...)
I begged you for restraint, cde Russell, but you couldn't hold that cynical bile down, eh?!
(For those wondering why petit-bourgeois white guys in a wonderful class/race-struggle setting like SA distract each other with occasional e-attacks, be assured we also share a regular beer on each other's turf and we're smiling while typing. Russell's got a mean wit but a good heart and good street-cred with Eastern Cape working-class civil society, though he wouldn't admit it because it might detract from the working-class-is-dead thesis that LM orders him to bait the local comrades with.)
(And for the record, contrary to flattering allegation, I do virtually no anti-WTO work simply because there are at least a dozen great techy-comrades doing fantastic surgical and political work in this area...)
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