[lbo-talk] the autumn of the communes?

[Carrol Cox]

On 10/29/2011 1:09 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Oct 29, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
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>> On Oct 29, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>> ...The call to abolish corporate personhood, for example, betrays a lack of having thought anything about scale and organization...
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>> The idea that the issue of "corporate personhood" has anything to do with "scale and organization" betrays a lack of having understood what the issue is all about.
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> Have you ever talked with or read any of the corporate personhood types? It's all about small partnerships and proprietorships. It's tied up with all that small, localist stuff.
>

There he goes again. His only topic of seems to be what some unnamed and 
doubtfully relevant "group of  people think. Of course some other group 
of people think differently, and don't doubt that there are several 
hundred groups of people who think or say several hundred  different 
things that may or may not be relevant.

And in any case of course the anti-corporate personhood slogan, like all 
agitational and mobilizing slogans, is a talking-point, a topic for 
further dicussion, not a legal brief. Doug remains trapped in his own 
expertise. That expertise is real and of great significance. But it does 
not translate into understanding of how social movements develop.

Carrol