Julio,
Mangabeira Unger is provocative. I liked his ending -- where he
objects to the usual responses: "Oh, that's utopian" (quite familiar on
PEN-l) or "That's trivial."
I liked his remarks on the "progressives'" stimulus: Necessary but nowhere
near sufficient.
I liked his comments on education, especially on the issue of the necessity to
reach all, less so on how to govern local application/operation of schools.
I would recommend this video for a workshop, for example at the URPE summer
camp, rather than something by, say Krugman or Stiglitz, as a way to begin a
conversation.
At the same time I acknowledge Mangabeira Unger's emphasis on reform as a
problem. In recent memory, prominent people attempted to reform the Democrat
and Republican parties from the inside and then ran as outsiders, to only
slight effect. Ralph Nader and Ross Perot. Will the Tea Party have an effect
on the Republicans? They've got Romney as a candidate in spite of pulling or
pushing or whatever. Ron Paul?
A major problem with any existing national party is the screening and selection
process that ensures candidates rising to top ranks will never do anything that
threatens the rest. Radicals can get elected mayor, for example, but no
higher, for the party can't tolerate the risk. The two parties IMO are
impervious to reform.
BTW, I didn't mean to denigrate Occupy in an earlier post. What I was
thinking, regardless of how I put it, is that Occupy, with its interest groups,
becomes a target for accusations that it is just people looking for a handout.
In Oakland, perhaps in contrast with NY or elsewhere, there isn't much
analysis, economic or otherwise, being put forward.
Gene
On Jun 17, 2012, at 6:20 AM, Julio Huato wrote:
> Here Mangabeira Unger tries to do economics:
>
> http://youtu.be/QZPJ8hltDYA
>
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