>...and yet I see someone with the same -- or a similar -- name, is
>now out there pushing for the cuts in Francer's public pensions that
>teenage lovers are making out in the streets to protest? Please tell
>me it's not the same guy! (
He's always been that guy. He was in government before he wrote the book Here's a review:
http://www.notbored.org/attali.html
But Attali does not want to see people all over the world rise up in open revolution against both private and bureaucratic capitalism: as a member of the "socialist" government of a leading Western nation -- especially one that as recently as 1968 was nearly toppled by a popular revolution -- his job depends on the infinite delaying and deferring of this necessary revolution; indeed, his job is the infinite delaying and deferring of it.