>But I do
>not see the legitimacy of projecting it on some larger political
>context. Engels noticed long ago that any movement has a lot of strange
>(and often obnoxious) characters cluttering the landscape. It's just the
>way the cookie crumbles.
But what if something is strong enough to itself help crumble the cookie?
What Reed/Zizek/Michaels are saying is we're talking about something that is part of the larger political context, not just some distraction.
Michaels doesn't ring my bell like Reed and Zizek do though.