Jodi wrote: > as well as the ongoing threats to Social Security, Medicare, and > Medicaid)?because people are mobilized as the 99%, the attack on > capitalism takes different forms, forms loosely associated with the > ideological span of the contemporary left. > 1. Progressive/left-liberal Democrat: constitutional reform, > legislative goals (abolish corporate personhood; money out of politics); > locate problem in political process. > 2. Left Keynesian: jobs for all demand, tax the rich; locate problem in > the economy > 3. Anarchists?see the state as well as hierarchical and centralized > power as the primary problem (capitalism depends on the state); solution > is to constitute alternative practices, alongside or outside the > mainstream; a politics of refusal and creative production; any attempt to > seize the state will just reproduce the structures of power and patterns > of behavior in which we are caught. > 4. Communists/ revolutionary socialists?see the economy as the primary > problem (state as instrument of class power); goal is over-throwing > capitalism and establishing communism.
When I visited Occupy Wall Street this fall, a non-trivial number of the occupiers I spoke to - including its Open Source media spokesman whom Chris Csikszentmihalyi had invited to his class at the New School - were Ron Paul supporters, followers of the Zeitgeist movement or even La Rouchians. While the movement is anti-capitalist, I don't think that it is left-wing as a whole. Florian -- blog: http://en.pleintekst.nl # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
