tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post3350175410413202937..comments2023-09-29T06:57:06.991-07:00Comments on Anglachel's Journal: Modes of Reaction and RevolutionAnglachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01110546252851760414noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-44541662578083405212012-01-25T07:57:45.971-08:002012-01-25T07:57:45.971-08:00I have a copy of History and Class Consciousness b...I have a copy of History and Class Consciousness by George Lukács. Guess I need to read it again to see the hatred of liberals and conservatives. The part that I did get that intrigued me was the way he anticipated Naomi Klein by decades. As Klein documents in No Logo, Lukacs predicted that the commodity form, the template of the marketplace, would overflow it's proper limited place in society to become the ethos and practice that dominates the entire culture.someofpartshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09072141973865448445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-35984395185166848962012-01-05T06:09:07.790-08:002012-01-05T06:09:07.790-08:00Interesting post, although I actually prefer Robin...Interesting post, although I actually prefer Robin on the nature of conservatives and liberals. Lilla's take on this issue I find very much at a gaseous 30,000 feet level that grounds the distinction in fundamentally different metaphysical views of human nature. Robin seems much more interested in teasing out how differing reactions to the question of power and hierarchy have played out, in historical and social context, over time. That approach seems more grounded and interesting to me than Lilla's, whose work is also interesting but seems to me very abstracted from real events and specific human actors and their motivations.redscotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00311167473555575509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-65505066164128183662012-01-03T12:33:42.326-08:002012-01-03T12:33:42.326-08:00Occupy Wall Street protests eschewing actual objec...<i>Occupy Wall Street protests eschewing actual objectives . . . are unlikely to translate into votes and it's questionable whether the participants care.</i><br /><br />Thank you. At this point, the Occupy "movement" is mostly a media-fueled exercise in Marxist Romanticism.<br /><br />Consider Occupy Oakland. The famous poster announcing the action to shut down West Coast ports features a telling headline: <b>OCCUPY STRIKES BACK</b>. Back against what?<br /><br />Here is Barucha Peller, a "radical" (<i>Counterpunch</i>, etc.) journalist who does not live or work in Oakland but presumes to address the Oakland City Council on behalf of Oakland's "99 percent," (most of whom are actually feeling quite alienated from Occupy Oakland):<br /><br /><i>You [Oakland authorities] coordinated national attacks on the Occupy movement . . . So you know what we did? We coordinated an attack on you and we shut down ports up and down the West Coast and coordinated an attack on the 1 percent, who you’re supporting. So if you keep on doing this, think about the consequences, OK?</i><br /><br />In other words, Occupy Oakland is all about Occupy Oakland.Palominohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01797386939480032699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-80241192657348754052012-01-02T19:06:35.753-08:002012-01-02T19:06:35.753-08:00Ok, I'm going to have to think about all this ...Ok, I'm going to have to think about all this a while-- probably a long while. It is a fascinating trek through political science, though I feel like I might need some CEU's after digesting the various definitions and distinctions.<br /><br />Good job!Bob Harrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05242937151007030508noreply@blogger.com