[lbo-talk] ode to radical liberals

[// ravi]

On Oct 24, 2011, at 2:02 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> 
> written in 2009, this seemed pretty prescient:
> 
> "The radical liberals, in order "to defuse spontaneity, have a
> meeting. Then another, and another. Wait ten minutes, and then start
> over. This is the logic of the radical liberals. Ashamed of the
> failures of the 60’s, they seek to relive its worst moments and
> rectify them in the present, as if that would bring honor to the
> cemeteries which house their dead. Every site of conflict is deemed
> counterproductive, and every moment of possibility is deemed too soon.
> Believing that they are the true heirs to the “lessons” of the past,
> they smother the present with their dead language, providing false
> directions that lead only to entrenched stability. Comfort is their
> goal, and compromise is their strategy. Their tactics vary from
> scripted civil disobedience to scripted civil obedience. They embrace
> their own image, incapable of moving forward without a mirror to
> guarantee their existence. Names, demands, and identities fill their
> arsenal, and one should be wary of their approach. To expose them does
> not mean to oppose them directly, for opposition can produce a sense
> of legitimacy of their project. Rather, like certain villagers do to
> state authorities when they come by to see how their colony is doing,
> one should nod and agree, and then act according to their complete
> irrelevance. Indifference can be a weapon if it used right. These
> individuals should be made redundant, entirely superfluous."
> 
> http://zinelibrary.info/files/preoccupied-imposed.pdf
> 

Woah! That’s spooky! (even if every word of it doesn’t apply)

	—ravi