What good are the anti-WTO protests, and what might be better?
I’ve heard this derision toward the anti-WTO movement and related folks before, the quick and easy statement that their tactics are all wrong. Near as I can tell you mostly like to state that and leave it; I’m very interested in the question, but so far you’ve offered me little reason for thinking these activist movements are doing something wrong. Little, that is, beyond what seems a personal distaste for their members. Not unlike: Nobody wants to hear about environmentalism from a hippie in a Phish t-shirt who smells of patchouli and ass. Well, saying a thing like that doesn’t carry any actual meaning. Everybody on Earth falls into an equally disparaging stereotype in somebody’s eyes. Gets the conversation nowhere, and certainly imparts no useful insight about the people you’re talking about or their methods. I am a fairly new student of left-wing politics; I was given Atlas Shrugged to read, by my dad, when I was fourteen years old. I have always charted my intellectual awakening to
