[lbo-talk] Doug's case against Naomi Klein

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Apr 29 07:20:31 PDT 2008


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> ducks the hard question of how capitalism evokes
> popular consent

Yes.

- and why people should take a leap into the unknown
> to challenge it.

Not a hard question because the answer is, "They won't." No one moves to challenge capitalism until they are already deepiy in conflict with it without having intended that. One discovers The Enemy within the prior struggle against some aspect of The Enemy. Hence the pointlessness of "anti-capitalist propagandat/persuasion" in the abstract.

Carrol



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