[lbo-talk] the nonsense of public opinion

[Joseph Catron]

Thanks! And maybe I'd have to read Kapuscinski, but that seems like a bit
of a stretch. (Žižek, I find, can be an awfully "stretchy" writer.) Hell,
I've seen individual cops, or small groups of 'em, stand down in the US,
too.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 5:02 PM, MM <marxmail00 at gmail.com> wrote:

"In Shah of Shahs, a classic account of the Khomeini revolution, Ryszard
> Kapuscinski located the precise moment of this rupture: at a Tehran
> crossroad, a single demonstrator refused to budge when a policeman shouted
> at him to move, and the embarrassed policeman simply withdrew; in a couple
> of hours, all Tehran knew about this incident, and although there were
> street fights going on for weeks, everyone somehow knew the game is over.”

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