Re: AUT: Re: Seattle, now what?

[pmargin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Wright)]

Angela wrote:

>i time?'   my initial question, and the one i've been thinking about for
>some time, has been: 'what do J18 and N30 indicate for the shape and
>prospect of struggles into the next century?'

yes, that's one of the biggest questions now . . . - which reminds me, did
anyone else check out that post-J18 reflections web site mentioned a few
weeks ago?

>rosenbergs, storming the winter palace...).   despite what any of us might
>say, i think the sense of historical movement has in fact returned at the
>end of the millenium, but it's not the kind of historicity that social
>democrats (or leninists) can register or account for.  thankfully, we can
>all admit that the 'eighties slogan of 'the end of history' has now been
>shattered; but perhaps we had to pass through that moment in order to give
>'history' itself a completely different _sense_.  that is,  it's also true
>i think that the _sense_ of history as advanced by the second (as well as
>the third and fourth) international is dead, if not limping around inviting
>amorous attachments in the echo chambers of cyberspace.
>
>anyone for walter benjamin instead?

Ah, the man who wrote 'That things "just keep going on" *is* the
catastrophe' . . .

So are we in one of those moments when the apparent naturalness of
capitalist social relations falters?

Steve




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