As for Paul Krugman, I read his blog ("Conscience of a Liberal") everyday on the NY Times website, and his columns in that paper on Mondays and Fridays. He's an excellent left liberal economist (even if he did win a Nobel prize two years ago), and well worth reading for his very sharp, extremely well informed jabs at the conservativerepublicanchristianhypocriticalrightwing. One can even learn some things from him.
October 29, 2011
I've read the Swanson and Krugman pieces posted here and think them both to be thoughtful and good. But I strongly recommend everyone reading the Zizek article from ITT to which a link is posted earlier here, because he gives a good radical left analysis of the current situation in the OWS movement and shows the way forward, the next step. It's very much worth reading carefully and attending to, and even using as a guide to action. (Originally, the article was given as a speech at Zuccotti Park.)
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I didn't really like Zizek when I first read him and I didn't know why it seemed kind of off and then I saw he is a psychoanalyst..so that explained all the talk about narcissism. And he just took phrases liberals use and threw them out like they meant something. Like the U.S. has Socialism for the rich. And threw in a couple of sentences about China. I think it is worth reading these paid columnists but often think that we can come up with a better analysis ourselves. Those within the struggle always have the best perspective, which is why I like all the video recordings of the participants that are being done in Salem as the best starting point.
Zizek is far, far better than what you say, Ann. He comes out of a very honorable East European radical socialist and intellectual tradition, one which takes a very useful and humane large view of things. And Europeans have a far more favorable, and knowledgeable, view of psychoanalysis than most Americans do--and IMO for very good reasons. Refusing to pay attention to someone like Zizek, on this matter, is a sure path to a self-defeating insularity rather than to a fruitful, energizing internationalism.
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