[lbo-talk] occupation and situationists was Re: enemy's turf

Eric Beck ersatzdog at gmail.com
Fri Oct 28 11:50:08 PDT 2011


On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>> Well, as Jodi Dean reminds us, there is no politics unless there are
>> lines of conflict.
>
> Are you serious? The ideal would be to get workers and customers on the same side against management and shareholders. That's the line of conflict.

I was kind of goofing, but also serious. In the Jacobin debate, I was unclear on what Dean meant. I assumed at first she meant the exact kinds of lines you draw here, which I'm totally behind, but I couldn't figure out why she brought it up, and brought it up so forcefully, when the anarcho contingent had already, and even more forcefully, made it clear they were all about sharpening the conflicts between the occupation and the ruling forces. That led me to believe that she was talking about the necessity of *conflicts* within the occupation. But really I'm not sure.



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