

{"} Sheep spend their whole life fearing the wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd Russia in not just a country, it's a whole civilization It is unfair on China to call it an empire... China has not invaded anyone... They have not done regime change, they have not crushed democracies in Greece, Iran, all of Latin America They have not killed millions of people in cruel wars


If we want to understand why mainstream theorists had such a difficulty in
dealing with December 2008 as a social movement, we must pay particular
attention to the theoretical and ideological displacements surrounding the
demand for modernization. The identification of modernization with neoliberal
orthodoxy led to a very particular reaction towards social movements