He is wrong on OWS not because he is necessarily wrong on callingthem naive but because that is, at this point, utterly irrelevant -- it ignores the crucial fact about O WS: the way it has reframed the national conversation, and the impulse it has given to leftist elsewhere. We are in the middle (early stages infact)of a process, which meahns all parts of it are _events_, and it is politically obtuse to "criticize events: one asks rather what to do with them.
Carrol
On 10/10/2011 12:23 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> i was confused at first, given Chomsky's instense defense of the tea
> partiers and his attack on leftists who washed their hands of them..
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> But then I see that he was speaking at the Rebellious Media
> Conference, and not to the UK Uncut audience, so crafting his message
> to particular audiences. /When they're radicals, he says that the OWS
> movement is naive, but when asked about it a few days before that, he
> appeared to endorse OWS.
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> I'm not sure I understand this strategy. Won't it backfire if OWS
> people find out he's denouncing them?
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>> http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/chomsky-sticks-boot-in-to-occupy-wall-street/
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>> Been at the Rebellious Media conference all weekend – more of which
>> later. I caught the second half of Chomsky’s speech saturday morning –
>> anout 1200 people there. I was impressed. Chomsky took no prisoners.
>> He described the Occupy wall streeters as ‘ naive people who have no
>> comprehension of the real world’. He then went on to look at the
>> demands of the occupiers in both New York and Boston -and illustrate
>> how they could easily be accomodated by the existing banking system.
>> There was a class war going on said Chomsky repeatedly but only one
>> side was currentlt waging it and it wasn’t us!! For the wall
>> streeters read UK Uncut here who have similarly lame financial demands
>> which are similarly easily accomodated. Theres an argument to be made
>> that ‘anything is better than nothing’ but like Chomsky i dont think
>> it is. ‘People will live an intense period of activism for months’said
>> chomsky ‘then vanish from poltical activity forever because of the
>> nature of their demands which pose no threat to the system’
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>> [The old fart smelled this through his important breather holes
>> Cleverly he dialed from within
>> > From the outside we observed
>> That the nose of the wooden mask
>> Where the holes had just been a moment ago
>> Was now smooth amazingly blended camouflaged in
>> With the very intricate rainbow trout replica]
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