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“Watching the crowds in Iceland banging pots and pans until their government fell reminded me of a chant popular in anti-capitalist circles in 2002: ‘You are Enron. We are Argentina.’ Its message was simple enough. You–politicians and CEOs huddled at some trade summit–are like the reckless scamming execs at Enron… We–the rabble outside–are like the people of Argentina, who, in the midst of an economic crisis eerily similar to our own, took to the street banging pots and pans. They shouted, ‘¡Que se vayan todos!’ (‘All of them must go!’) and forced out a procession of four presidents in less than three weeks. What made Argentina’s 2001-02 uprising unique was that it wasn’t directed at a particular political party or even at corruption in the abstract. The target was the dominant economic model–this was the first national revolt against contemporary deregulated capitalism” – Klein