Someday I too, can retire from work and do a book on being a WAITRESS.

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Thu Nov 9 13:37:36 PST 2000


At 03:31 PM 11/9/00 -0500, Matt wrote:
>The trick, I guess, is to embrace the ritual itself, and to become a third
>party that appears no different. Is Jesse Ventura radical? Don't sell
>the third party based on the differences, sell it by the similarities.
>After grasping power, then become radical.
>

Sounds like a time-honored political strategy to me: Napoleon, Lenin, Mao, Haile-Sellassie, Hitler to name a few. And, of course, the famous argument advanced by Marx in the _18th brummaire of Louis Bonaparte_ from that viewpoint Jesse Ventura is Louis Bonaparte repeated as a farce....

wojtek



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