It is an interesting read.

Elusive Trope — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:27:22 +0000

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It is an interesting read. It does a good job of highlighting the tension between those looking to reform the system and those who believe the system has to be replace altogether.

Given the movement's ambivalence (at best; more often, antipathy) toward electoral politics, Martinez is a lightning rod. His campaign exposes ideological and tactical fissures as old as Occupy Wall Street and older.

For some, his candidacy reeks of co-option, representing a textbook example of the ways a corrupt, broken system recuperates and metabolizes every threat into a neutered, defanged format. A movement organized in opposition to a national politics so thoroughly captured by corporate power that the people are voiceless regardless of whom they elect can't be expected to take seriously someone who proposes running for office as a solution, they say.

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It is an interesting read.