[lbo-talk] Old Left v WSF etc

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Dec 25 09:17:40 PST 2003


Todd Archer wrote:


>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 . . . .

The Social Forums seem more like chatshops than instruments of political action. The nonhierarchical pluralism is welcome in a conference, but I'm not sure you can affect the outside world much with such an appropach. Maybe I'm wrong - I'm very open to hearing more, which is why I forwarded the piece.

Doug



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