> Carrol: "Probably critizing Platypus and/or Klein is equally unproductive."
While I largely agree with Carrol's points on criticism, I'd say critiques of Klein are not only productive but probably necessary. For two reasons: (1) Her anti-accumulation-by-dispossession trip is nearly hegemonic on the left; and (2) it's a position that's bad not because it's wrong--though it is--but because it takes Fordist production relations and Keynesian-state management as both the norm and the goal. It seems to me that it might be necessary to disavow Klein's (and Harvey's, and many others') highly conservative political analysis.