[lbo-talk] Why I Skip Anti-Globalization Protests

[ravi]

On 23 Oct, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Oct 23, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Angelus Novus wrote:
>
>> "Particularly today, because decisive activity is cut
>> off, and because on the other hand, for reasons which
>> I have suggested often enough, thought itself is
>> paralyzed, powerless and random praxis quite easily
>> becomes a substitute for that which does not occur.
>> And the deeper one knows that it isn't actually true
>> praxis, all the more bitterly and passionately does
>> consciousness adhere to such a praxis." - T.W. Adorno,
>> Vorlesung über Negative Dialektik (my translation)
>
> A perfect critique of activistism in a short paragraph.
>

Hell, he had me at "praxis"!

	--ravi

I think I am over quota? No more powerless, paralyzed praxis for me!  
The random part I shall keep!