File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1995/f_Apr.95, message 60


Date: Fri Apr 14 07:16:34 1995
From: Tom Blancato <tblancato-AT-envirolink.org>
Subject: Re: Foucault and Revolution


Perhaps this example of the Chekoslvakian Velvet revolution could give some 
perspective to this discussion. In 9 days, students with no experience 
organized a mass strike to protest the oppressive government. 5,000,000 people 
participated, and in 24 hours, the government backed down.
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"It is only after one ceases to reduce public affairs to the business of 
dominion that the original data in the realm of human affairs will appear, or, 
rather, reappear, in their authentic diversity."  -- Hannah Arendt

Tom Blancato
tblancato-AT-envirolink.org




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