>I'd have to agree with Irene Tung quoted in the article below about
>the style of organizing that has become fashionable among young
>activists through Seattle, A16, etc.: "There was definitely an
>insider's culture at A16, especially at the convergence spaces.
>There was a vocabulary and behavior, an assumed cultural
>commonality, that was somewhat eerie. It seems that the ideals of
>absence of leadership and `facilitated chaos'--as they say--function
>best in a homogenous group." Yoshie
What would you prefer instead?
I have to say it seems odd for a Marxist to complain about insider's vocabularly and an assumed common culture. Reification and the transformation problem aren't the stuff of everyday speech.
Doug