me:
>> This is absolutely right. There are people from all sorts of social
>> movements who have been (1) separated from their movement, their
>> "roots"; and then (2) absorbed into state and/or capitalist
>> bureaucracies. This (3) leads them to embrace top-down solutions to
>> every problem (environmental, social, economic) rather than relying on
>> the collective and democratic mobilization of workers, ethnic
>> minorities, women, students, or whoever it was that had been their
>> base.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bollocks.
>
> Sometimes a job is just a job.

that's right. I was talking about statistical averages: sociological
processes that change people's perspectives and motivations work on
average but there are always exceptions. Or you could say that these
processes have these effects "holding all else constant."
-- 
Jim DevineĀ / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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