the NYC demos: a report

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Feb 5 14:45:04 PST 2002


Liza Featherstone wrote:
>
> there were, however, as always, plenty of people there who I talked to whose
> politics were less choate or less radical or less linguistically
> confrontational than the term "anticapitalist" would suggest. as there are
> throughout the movement (or "movements" as Chuck0 suggests) which is why I
> still defend my failure to use the term to describe the whole carnival.

The majority of revolutionaries in any real revolution only discover a year or two after the insurrection that they are revolutionaries. I would guess that most of the people who stormed the Winter Palace would not have called themselves "anti-capitalist" the preceding day.

Carrol



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