[lbo-talk] LBO-Talk's Message to the Masses

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Mon Sep 26 20:17:10 PDT 2011


On 9/26/2011 4:49 PM, dndlllio at aol.com wrote:


> Also see David Graebers piece in the Guardian:
>
> " The form of resistance that has emerged looks remarkably similar to
> the old global justice movement, too: we see the rejection of
> old-fashioned party politics, the same embrace of radical diversity, the
> same emphasis on inventing new forms of democracy from below. What's
> different is largely the target: where in 2000, it was directed at the
> power of unprecedented new planetary bureaucracies (the WTO, IMF, World
> Bank, Nafta), institutions with no democratic accountability, which
> existed only to serve the interests of transnational capital; now, it is
> at the entire political classes of countries like Greece, Spain and,
> now, the US – for exactly the same reason. This is why protesters are
> often hesitant even to issue formal demands, since that might imply
> recognising the legitimacy of the politicians against whom they are
> ranged."
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/25/occupy-wall-street-protest

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