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To the Precinct Station: How theory met practice … and drove it absolutely crazy

To the Precinct Station: How theory met practice … and drove it absolutely crazy [ S a lvos ] To the Precinct Station How theory met practice . . . and drove it absolutely crazy T 3 Thomas Fr ank here is a scene I always recall when I try to remember the exhilarating effect that Occupy Wall Street had on me when it was first getting going. I was on a subway train in Washington, D.C., reading an article about the protests in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan. It was three years after the Wall Street bailouts. It was two years after everyone I knew had given up hope in the creativity of Barack Obama. It was two months after the bankers’ friends in the Republican Party had pushed the country right to the brink of default in order to underscore their hallucinatory economic theories. Like everyone else, I had had enough. Anyhow, the subway car was boarded by some perfectly dressed, perfectly polished corporate executive, clearly on the way back from some trade show, carrying a tote bag that bore some jaunty slogan about maximizing shareholder value or what a fine thing luxury is or how glorious it is to be a winner—the kind of sentiment that had been commonplace a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Baffler MIT Press

To the Precinct Station: How theory met practice … and drove it absolutely crazy

Frank, Thomas
The Baffler – Nov 1, 2012
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MIT Press
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© 2012 Thomas Frank
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Salvos
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1059-9789
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2164-926X
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10.1162/BFLR_a_00086
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[ S a lvos ] To the Precinct Station How theory met practice . . . and drove it absolutely crazy T 3 Thomas Fr ank here is a scene I always recall when I try to remember the exhilarating effect that Occupy Wall Street had on me when it was first getting going. I was on a subway train in Washington, D.C., reading an article about the protests in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan. It was three years after the Wall Street bailouts. It was two years after everyone I knew had given up hope in the creativity of Barack Obama. It was two months after the bankers’ friends in the Republican Party had pushed the country right to the brink of default in order to underscore their hallucinatory economic theories. Like everyone else, I had had enough. Anyhow, the subway car was boarded by some perfectly dressed, perfectly polished corporate executive, clearly on the way back from some trade show, carrying a tote bag that bore some jaunty slogan about maximizing shareholder value or what a fine thing luxury is or how glorious it is to be a winner—the kind of sentiment that had been commonplace a

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The Baffler – MIT Press

Published: Nov 1, 2012

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