WB on its critics

[Gordon Fitch]

> > > What's a leftist to do when the word arises? Point out
> > > it's a propaganda word, or at most an empty signifier?
> > > I believe the word is gaining wider usage.
> >
> > Isn't the term (used as shorthand for all sorts of evil processes)
> just as
> > significant a part of the lefty lexicon?  I think that's a big part
> of the
> > problem.
> >
> > -- Luke

Ian Murray:
> It's a brain sticker; the signifier makes imperialism
> communicationally cumbersome. And democratic cosmopolitanism does not
> make for prose either. We need to sit with a dictionary for a while on
> this one 'cause the spin is gonna be insidious for the next few weeks
> and months.

It's the International Capitalist Conspiracy, or ICC.  The
acronym is conveniently pronounceable.