[PEN-L:33381] Re: In Defense of Scrooge (not meant as a joke)

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

"If on the other hand, you are a radical, the ironic implication is
this: there isn't much to do right now to distinguish yourself from
liberals. Toss a few rocks at Starbucks during the next WTO meeting if
you want, but don't mistake such gestures for genuinely radical
responses. What radicals should be doing right now is studying and
thinking. You need to put in your ten years at the library, the way Marx
did. You need to be figuring out what makes human beings tick and what,
if any, direction is to be found in history. And I don't mean some
half-assed sci-fi anarcho-Gaia nonsense you cobbled together before you
dropped out of Bard; I mean serious study, working toward an alternative
to a global bourgeois democracy. What radicals need most right now isn't
action but theory." [Thomas de Zengotita, Harpers, January 2003]


Happy holidays!



Ian