(From the Zephyr Archives) Establishment Environmentalism and “Change Without Changing” By Scott Thompson

An excerpt:

Sometimes a radical movement ignites a spark of passion that captures the public’s imagination. After awhile powerful people, assuming they have some foresight, come to recognize that in order to protect themselves the group must be granted a bona fide role in society. Indeed, such a maneuver often confers a bonus beyond neutralizing the movement’s threat: the group’s symbols and terminology can be turned around to support the mainstream political and economic order. While still seeming to change it. I call such a scheme change without changing.

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