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

Bhaskar Sunkara bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 13:41:44 PDT 2011


Ah, they cut the hyperlink. And yes, it was suppose to be a virtue, a good way to guard against state socialism, firing squads, and the other perils of power, right?

Naomi Klein, “Farewell to the End of History: Organization and Vision in Anti-Corporate Movements,” *The Socialist Register*, vol. 38 (2002)

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> 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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