FW: The anti-imperialism of fools

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Mon Jun 17 18:10:55 PDT 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 4:12 PM Subject: Re: FW: The anti-imperialism of fools


> >At 06:28 PM 6/17/2002 -0400, Doug wrote:
> >
> >>Oh yeah? So why are so many of today's activists the offspring of
> >>60s activists?
> >
> >Perhaps because so many 60s activists became respectable members of
> >the establishment.
> >Besides - I did not say "activists," I said "politics of protest" -
> >which in my mind are two very different things. Like "doing things"
> >and "kvetching."
> >
> >wojtek
>
> Just out of curiosity, what sorts of activism do you engage in?
> --
> Yoshie
>
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The fine academic tradition of arrogant armchair quarterbacking better known to jargonologists as "The Olympian-Paternalist mode of deprecating Social Movement formations that can't fit inside A Priori Conceptions of what Social Movements Should Be."

Ian



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