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Originally Posted by roachboy
so while i saw footage and/or stories of the sort that seem almost requisite for a g-x (7/8 to 20) meeting of peaceful demonstrators being attacked by riot police....
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For five years up until last autumn, I worked in that neighbourhood. I bought my guitar at Steve's there, and I once bought my nephew a video game at that EB Games. I walked that stretch about twice a day. It was odd to see that display in that street, in this country even. Though it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. The photo of the burning police car in front of Steve's was particularly disturbing....
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you'd think this neolibeal hogwash would dissipate given its obvious political failure, it's empirical failures and its inability to provide anything remotely like a coherent vantage on the continuing crisis of transnational capitalism...
intellectual paralysis is powerful.
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Well, I think the powers that be like to look at neoliberalism as the status quo, because of what it had accomplished for those powers. They'd like to keep it alive; they'd like to reconstitute it and keep it going indefinitely as the way the world works.
Wouldn't you?
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 06-28-2010 at 10:08 AM..
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