Social Movements Are the Engine of Change « The End of Capitalism. As the “democracy uprising” spreads from Tunisia, to Egypt, and now to Wisconsin, it seems the whole world is starting to look a little more like Latin America.
Social movements “south of the border” have been pumping out progressive change, and winning, for a couple decades now. This victorious and active Latin left goes back at least to the Venezuelan “Caracazo” of 1989, an uprising very similar to what we’ve been watching lately in Tahrir Square, Cairo.
Education. The need for a new political paradigm. By Stephen Stone As is well known, one of the knocks against conservatives is that they tend to let their enemies define who they are and what they believe.
Rather than define themselves on their own terms, they let liberals and Democrats take control of the debate by defining all the important terminology. The result is that the conservatives never really succeed in educating the general public about who they are and what their agenda is. They allow their detractors to do that for them. A key reason for this phenomenon is that the liberals control the communication apparatus of our nation--our schools, our media, our publications, our entertainment.