[lbo-talk] Me in Dissent's "10 years later" symposium

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Sep 8 13:37:03 PDT 2011


On Sep 8, 2011, at 4:26 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:


> Dissent Magazine hit me up to write in their "Ten Years Later" symposium. I
> decided to defend Operation Iraqi Freedom. No, not really. I wrote about the
> 90s and the MULTITUDE. Admittedly, I spent most of that glorious decade
> watching Thomas the Tank Engine and trying to get my sister to turn down her
> Nirvana records.
>
> http://dissentmagazine.org/online.php?id=531
>
> Haven't read the rest of the contributions (pretty sure I'll save myself the
> trouble of reading Mitchell Cohen's) but an early review of my own was a
> relatively positive, "Could have probably been worse," from one
> distinguished list-member.

Coulda.

So where did N. Klein write this?


> The ad hoc coalitions behind these demonstrations are frequently named after the date of the planned event—J18, N30, A16, S11, S26—and when the date is passed, they leave virtually no trace behind, save for an archived website.

Was this mutability meant to be a virtue?

Doug



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