DH>>
> Who the hell is "civil society"? Surely it's not Hegel's, which
> "affords a spectacle of extravagance and want as well as of the
> physical and ethical degeneration common to them both" - the domain
> of "capital and class-divisions," a world of "compulsion" and
> "excessive poverty and the creation of a penurious rabble." But what
> is it then? Who claims to speak for whom on the basis of what
> accountability? Do farmers not want to export their crops? Do
> nonfarmers not want to eat imported food?
======== Who's the guy who wrote "The Empire of Civil Society", the one who has the very interesting book on the follies of "globalization theory" [which looked very interesting when I peeked at portions of it]? Perhaps there are some clues there about the future viability or lack thereof of the concept "civil society". We should definitely be working on getting the "global working class" into the popular lexicon; how to do this amongst non-lefties will not be easy going.
Ian