[lbo-talk] "Move the goalposts, wingnuts!"

Lionel Mandrake brotherlyshove at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 12 18:36:49 PDT 2005


--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


>
>
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > Tom Walker wrote:
> >
> > >Nothing -- short of sustained, mass civil
> disobedience -- will
> > >alter this political equation.
> >
> > Disobedience of what laws, by whom, where, when?
> >
>
> These are precisely the questions that cannot be
> answered in advance.
> Tom rightly cites Sheehan's Camp Casey -- which
> isn't quite illegal. And
> his reference to consumption decisions is _truly_
> not the kind of
> consumption politics that I have attacked in the
> past. All his
> suggestions point towards, are consistent with,
> Gramsci's manuring
> metaphor. Your questions point back to the the
> dormitory bull session or
> the grad seminar.
>
> Carrol
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Gosh, imagine what the radical right could have accomplished had they set out with "questions that could not be answered in advance." Poor sods -- they thought they had answers about how power works and placing a particularly naive emphasis on branches of government set about testing them. Must have had too few bull sessions in grad school, I guess. God help us if they ever discover guerilla street theatre.

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