by Sasha Lilley
Adbusters
November 30th, 2011
Crises can be openings: moments when the stanchions are kicked out from
under the status quo, when the pieties of the recent past fall away
and a revitalized sense of collective power takes shape. But crises
aren’t always—or only—opportunities for radicals, mechanically ushering
legions of the downtrodden to the barricades. In times of crisis the
far right often harnesses the insecurities of the precarious, as well
as the monied, in the service of xenophobia and austerity.
Paradoxically, crises of capitalism are opportunities for capital.
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