tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post1655562224631697248..comments2024-03-26T15:19:23.091-07:00Comments on false dichotomy by charles davis: Preach it, brother ChrisCharles Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06005070529766546097noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-66261388930520828892011-05-24T09:45:49.214-07:002011-05-24T09:45:49.214-07:00I don't see what's a big deal about Chris ...I don't see what's a big deal about Chris Hedges. He's a tool. Laying into a has-been like Cornel West --whose Star Power was active 20 years ago-- takes no guts. But then, Chris Hedges has repeatedly shown himself a gutless fool, an apologist for empire.<br /><br />I guess I can't expect much more from someone who is working with "Medea" Benjamin, who crowed for invading Afghanistan "to protect women."<br /><br />Give with one hand, take back with the other. <br /><br />Pretend to criticize empire while helping it indirectly.<br /><br />Hedges, Benjamin... and Davis?<br /><br />Say it ain't so, Charlie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-23556891785262968282011-05-23T22:35:20.975-07:002011-05-23T22:35:20.975-07:00Although Hedges still has some decided manageriali...Although Hedges still has some decided managerialist liberal tendencies. For example, he doesn't see any contradiction between anti-corporate radicalism and supporting the central form of monopoly -- so-called "intellectual property" -- on which the power of transnational corporations depends:<br />http://c4ss.org/content/1943<br /><br />I enjoyed seeing the use of Melissa Harris-Perry as a foil. She seems to alternate with Mark Potok of the SPLC on MSNBC's talking head lineup as spokesperson for the "rabid centrist" critique of all things anti-government. I've repeatedly heard her argue that secession and political decentralism in general, in American history, have just been cloaks for racial supremacy and reaction. The first time, I sent her an email with info about the role of the decentralist Left in American history, the use of jury nullification against the Fugitive Slave Laws, etc. Never heard back from her. <br /><br />Apparently the only alternatives are centralizing Galbraithian technocracy and being an inbred wifebeater in a white sheet.Kevin Carsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07525803609000364993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-85444503075687949552011-05-23T20:45:07.215-07:002011-05-23T20:45:07.215-07:00What John said. Class warfare will be waged, if at...What John said. Class warfare will be waged, if at all, by subaltern groups, not simpering liberal twats.<br /><br />Of course, job one for careerist liberals is to avoid anything but the most simulated contact with the street. Why would they want to properly direct the rabble's anger, conveniently misdirected as it presently is.jcapannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-54323385023957341112011-05-23T19:45:36.993-07:002011-05-23T19:45:36.993-07:00Great post. The Left needs to return to its populi...Great post. The Left needs to return to its populist roots. The original Populist Movement was comprised of mostly farmers and industrial workers, and they really frightened the elites because they really were the "peasants with pitchforks." <br /><br />On the other hand, is anybody afraid of some latte liberal with a law degree from NYU? The plutocrats that run the country don't fear establishment liberals because they know they will eventually give up their idealism for money and career. <br /><br />However, if you have a movement of poor people with little to lose, who are fighting not out of some desire to be an "activist" or "socially aware" but because they know they are being screwed by the boss and their lives and the lives of their family members are being ruined by the powerful, then we are getting somewhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-6405514330625826942011-05-23T18:58:51.878-07:002011-05-23T18:58:51.878-07:00Very little "insight" at that link that ...Very little "insight" at that link that I can find, JM. I found a lot more of it in this comment: <br /><br />http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2011/05/17/left-right-racism-continued/#comment-205512641<br /><br />Also, bravo Charlie.anselhttp://mediahacker.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-87315453071159928842011-05-23T17:07:57.154-07:002011-05-23T17:07:57.154-07:00There's some insight here:
http://louisproyect...There's some insight here:<br />http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/cornel-west-sizes-up-barack-obama/JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03223879013564312871noreply@blogger.com