<br clear="all">there is plenty of nihilist Leftist critique out there also<div><br></div><div>especially from the dinosaur vertical Marxists who have a big problem with the anarchic inspired bottom up processes common to these anti-capialist/alter-globalization movements</div>
<div><br></div><div>in Europe there is a lot more big tent solidarity then on display in the US... </div><div><br></div><div>too many old Marxists, who should just shut up and send food parcels, instead whinge about discipline and have created a mini industry critiquing the publications of the movements</div>
<div><br></div><div>the old, crusty, seedy Marxists, always say, "There is No Left in the USA". Now its obviously not true, they say "There is no Real, Rigorous, Dialectically Sophisticated, Disciplined Left in the USA"</div>
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<div id=":2gs">can I just make a general swing at the keyboard intellectuals. <div><br></div><div>get of your arses and get down the places where people are gathering and get involved in the process</div><div><br></div><div>
its real easy to sit at home and read the amatuer, naive, often foolish media that comes out of these media events and spectacles</div><div><br></div><div>even easier to type-up scathing nihilist critiques about the failure of the Left, the faults of the young, the weakness of the institutions etc etc etc etc etc</div>
<div><br></div><div>there is plenty of material, and its been done, too much</div><div><br></div><div>now is a time, to actually do something, and its time to be an organic intellectual and participate in the messy, smelly, noisy, uncomfortable realities of these kinds of democratic actions</div>
<div><br></div><div>soon enough it will dissipate, and you can go back to eating the shit sandwhich of Amercian life</div><div><br></div><div>but today, and for the next few days, there is something happening worth participating in</div>
<div><br></div><div>take your intellect, your knowledge, your experience and GO HELP</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div><div> <br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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