Re: The Roar and the Quiet?

In a message dated 2/17/2003 5:07:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, boles@svsu.edu 
writes:

> People protested on five continents in an unprecedented
> display of global coordination.

I'm not sure it was only five....  This is interesting in the context of 
Hardt/Negri's claim that struggle these days is 'incommunicable' and doesn't 
result in chain reactions bouncing across borders.  The question now, I guess, 
is can this 'multitutde' constitute itself as political subject, or will this 
energy all be dissipated (as was the case with the Nuclear Freeze movement of 
the early eighties).  While the coverage wasn't great, the New York Times did 
note that Bush will now have to take world public opinion more seriously.  
There is a key difference between this period and 1968.  The world revolution 
of '68 came in the context of the US military's failures in Vietnam (the 
standard history starts things with the Tet offensive).  One cannot help but 
wonder what struggle would look like were the US to again find itself 
militarilly on the ropes.

Steven Sherman