Curious how that last sentence contradicts the previous. The content's already been decided at the outset by the party of the WSF as to what's not included.
>The idea behind this is simple but beyond the comprehension of the Old
>Left: the WSF is precisely an occasion for making contact, exchanging
>opinions, learning to know each other so that movements can break out of
>their isolation and form alliances and coalitions. It is emphatically not a
>forum of organized resistance.
Except against the Old Left, then it seems to close ranks and get organized quite neatly.
Are there any groups in the WSF "sympathetic" to the "vanguardists"?
>Resistances and struggles continue - at every point where power is
>exercised. The WSF merely provides a space for the emergence of new
>solidarities for these alone, not vanguardist sects, will become the
>vehicles of the politics of a different world of equals.
While the writer makes a good point about "vanguardist sects" not helping, I fail to see how any group of people so fetishistically opposed to hierarchy are going to dirty their hands in official politics. Guess it's just going to have to be marching apart for now . . . .
Todd
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