All the best,
Tj
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not sure why you posted this drivel - this is basically blah blah
> blah of some academic shyster (ah, that discreet appeal of a
> three-fold classification of everything) telling his corporate clients
> that they are in charge in a lingo that they can understand, which is
> what they want to hear. If you impute that this is a proof how the
> so called real word operates - I am sorry, but you apparently cannot
> tell shit from shinola.
>
> Wojtek
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>> Activists fall into three basic categories: radicals, idealists, and
>> realists. The first step is to isolate and marginalize the radicals. They're
>> the ones who see inherent structural problems that need remedying if indeed
>> a particular change is to occur. To isolate them, try to create the
>> perception in the public mind that people advocating fundamental solutions
>> are terrorists, extremists, fear mongers, outsiders, communists, or
>> whatever. . . . The goal is to sour the idealists on the idea of working
>> with the radicals. Instead get them working with the realists. Realists are
>> people who want reform but don't really want to upset the status quo."
>> -Consultant speaking to corporate executives, (quoted in Kim Bobo, Steve
>> Max, and Jackie Kendall, Organizing for Social Change, 2001)
>>
>> Quoted in Morgan, Chapter 7, "System Response: Generational Hype and
>> Political Backlash"
>>
>> Carrp;
>>
>>
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