On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Sam Pawlett wrote:
> and sociology.One of Rorty's shortcomings is his failure to engage marxism of
> any kind. He did have a lacklustre debate with Eagleton in _Radical Philosophy_
> saying that marxism was irrelevant since few people believe it, there is no
> marxist movement and TINA. He can say this because of his pragmatism and his
oooh. Sam, he is terrible on Marxism. This is from his new book *Achieving our country*
For us Americans, it is important not to let Marxism influence the story we tell about our own Left. We should repudiate the Marxists' insinuation that only those who are convinced capitalism should be overthrown count as leftists, and that everybody else is a wimpy liberal, a self-decieving bourgeois reformer...((Sam--re: your comment that he engage the oncept of ideology->) I think we should abandon the left-versus-liberal distinction, along with other residues of MArxism that clutter up our vocabulary--overworked words like "commodification" and "ideology," for example. (42)
frances