[lbo-talk] Dean Baker's Artistic Freedom Voucher...

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Sep 9 10:20:59 PDT 2011


On Sep 9, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> In other words, you have in one brief paragraph demolished the Featherstone/Henwood/Parenti argument in their article, "Action Will Be Taken." First there must be action, then within that action goals are gradually theorized. Goals cannot be proposed by mere theorists.

Funny, in the ten years since that appeared, we've heard from scores of activists - still do, to this day - who enthusiastically endorse that argument. They're burned out by endless action without any larger strategy. Philanthropists seem to like that style, though, as we say in the piece.

Doug



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