[lbo-talk] alienation

[shag carpet bomb]

At 02:38 PM 7/20/2011, Eric Beck wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:46 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> 
>wrote:
> > That was Habermas's argument about legitimation crises. When crises
> > threw the legitimacy of the economy and government into question,
> > people responded by seeking to shore up their identities. This led to
> > what people called new or identity social movements on one hand, which
> > could have progressive elements, but to identity formations and
> > movements that sought to find comfort in group identities that were
> > conservatizing, culturally and politically.
>
>I don't really like the term legitimation crisis, but this sounds
>about right to me.

I'd love to know why!

shag

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