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It is extremely bizarre to me to watch the left cozy up to corporations. What happened to Occupy Wall Street, Chomsky, the real counterculture?
by ceilingcorner 6y ago
It is extremely bizarre to me to watch the left cozy up to corporations. What happened to Occupy Wall Street, Chomsky, the real counterculture?
- zepto 6y agoOccupy Wall Street ended because of its own dysfunction.
- ceilingcorner 6y agoI don’t mean what literally happened to it, I mean what happened to the values it represented. It’s barely been a decade and now the left has done a 180 on its relationship to corps.
- zepto 6y agoThe values it represented were never turned into anything coherent, which is part of why it collapsed. There are many problems with corporations and capitalism to be address. Being generally ‘anti-corporate’ just isn’t useful.
- username90 6y agoBig corps started hiring leftist thought leaders and pay them huge salaries, then the left aligned very quickly with those big corporations.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> It is extremely bizarre to me to watch the left cozy up to corporations. The Left opposing the Right’s efforts to commandeer corporate resources to serve right-wing political agendas and demonize (and incite violence against) those insufficiently subservient to right-wing interests against the will of the corporations involved isn't “cozying up to corporations.”