[lbo-talk] Taking the Pulse of Elite Response to OWS

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 18 10:43:38 PDT 2011


On Oct 18, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Eric Beck wrote:


> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> I thought you'd say that. Of course they're political. But the youth I talked to hadn't really thought things through politically. They had no political analysis to speak of.
>
> Right. Seems close to my experience as well. But those same people are
> doing politics, even if they don't have an articulated analysis.
> Politics doesn't require a fully formed ideology.

No it doesn't, but it can help. Or short of a fully formed ideology, some knowledge at least.

Doug



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