[lbo-talk] Spying for profit...

[Wojtek S]

[WS:]  I do not see how.  What I read is that surveillance capacity can go
both ways - to devise conspiracies and to expose them.  In that respect it
is not different from politics, social movements, the media etc.  They are
mere tools in the game whose outcome depends on power balances and
alliances among various inside and outside groups.  Sometimes this outcome
is "good" (i.e. favorable for interests that we identify with) sometimes it
is bad (i.e. unfavorable for those interests).

The static image of the polity thoroughly dominated by monolithic
"government" and equally monolithic "capitalist class" - that lies at the
foundations of the leftist  outcry about spying is a sad testimony of the
intellectual poverty of the left though, which has long abandoned the
difficult intellectual task of trying to understand its opponents for
simple demonization of them.

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:35 AM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> The Nation ran a good article on some of the side effects of Booze Allen
> type ops.
>
>
> http://www.thenation.com/blog/174741/how-spy-agency-contractors-have-already-abused-their-power#axzz2WA4es6DR
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> Supports everything Chuck Grimes was talking about.
>
> Joanna
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Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."