> "We did not lose the battles of ideas," [Klein] said in a recent speech to > the American Sociological Association. "We were not outsmarted and we > were not out-argued. We lost because we were crushed. Sometimes we > were crushed by army tanks, and sometimes we were crushed by think > tanks. And by think tanks I mean the people who are paid to think by > the makers of tanks."
On 9/29/07, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's an awful review, no doubt. But that quote from Klein is a rather > weak explanation of the right's ideological victory in reasonably > democratic countries like the U.S., UK, Australia, New Zealand, and > even Canada. not having read the book, I don't know if Klein has a better explanation there. > It's not easy to explain the degree and duration of > popular assent to neoliberalism, but somebody's got to do it. And we > did, at least to some degree, lose the battle of ideas. Time to dust > off Stuart Hall's old essay on how Thatcherism became the common > sense of the British masses. what does he say? does he say that the rise of neoliberalism isn't just their victory, but also a result of the weakness of the alternative? if so, that seems pretty obvious. -- Jim Devine / "The truth is at once less sinister and more dangerous." -- Naomi Klein.
