Twinkling

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Feb 9 08:25:21 PST 2002


Nathan Newman wrote:


>I thought Cooper's piece was a pile of crap -- why spend the first part of
>precious space about PA on trashing domestic folks rather than highlighting
>the positive -- but the general view of process being more serious in such
>places than in our "process-obsessed" groups strikes me as true. I find the
>process of many student and "anarchist" groups to be incredibly elitist and
>anti-democratic, with endless meetings and insider-manipulated processes,
>where power goes to those with the most free time and the fewest day care
>responsibilities.

I thought the point about the intellectual heft of the PA sessions was important, too - no doubt because of the prominence of Latin Americans & European. U.S. activists tend to be actionist (as Adorno put it) and anti-intellectual. Look for an article on this topic in the premiere issue of Radical Society (the successor to Socialist Review) by Liza Featherstone, Christian Parenti, and me.

Doug



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