Paul Krugman's Army has arrived!

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October 5, 2011, 5:11 PM
Ten-Hut!

Rich Yeselson, writing on Ezra Klein’s blog, says that my army may have arrived.

Self-promotion aside, it’s a good, thoughtful take on what the Occupy Wall Street protests may lead to. Never mind the street theater and annoying antics of some participants; this might be the start of something both big and good.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/ten-hut/

article:
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The left does have something important however: a coterie of several thousand intellectuals, academics, writers, and engaged professionals who articulate liberal public policy, generate empirical and analytical expertise through the Internet, the media, and universities, and staff the offices of advocacy groups and progressive politicians on the local and national level.

This is, as I said, important, but, up to now, some people have imagined that the byplay between smart bloggers and tweeters, or even the charged pen of brilliantly argumentative and intellectually courageous Nobel Prize winners, in economics actually represent a vast swell of citizens demanding substantive change. But to paraphrase a guy who understood real political power: How many troops does Paul Krugman have?

But when a movement does arise, it needs an articulate exposition, and the brainy liberal left infrastructure’s time has come. Edmund Wilson put down his Proust long enough to report from the bloody coal mines of Eastern Kentucky. College professors all over the country held public “teach-ins” to educate their students and others about the history of the Vietnam War and American interventionism.

So there’s a big job out to do explaining and defending the Wall Street demonstrators to curious Americans. Krugman’s Army may be on its way.

rest of article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-four-habits-of-highly-successful-social-movements/2011/08/25/gIQAeifVNL_blog.html

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. And Good God, let us not forget Thomas Paine!

Without him, we might still be speaking English. Crisps indeed!