Doug Henwood wrote:
> <...>, I hope this list will be a forum for speaking
> across intellectual and social boundaries that have divided the left, such
> as it is, for too long. Among these oppositions I'd like to see worked
> through are ones like class/identity, cultural politics/"real" politics,
> Marxism/postmodernism, universal/particularist, economics/culture,
> nature/labor; nature/culture, and labor/culture.<...>
One place many of these things ought to come together is activism. I have trouble imagining an activist movement being successful in the long run without paying attention to both class and identity politics, to culture and power, to nature and labor. These need better integration -- but, I'm not sure any of these are in sufficient opposition to each other to require a synthesis of the crude thesis-antithesis variety.
I think for the most part it is a matter of integrating complementary struggles rather than reconciling opposites or synthesizing contradictions.
Gar W. Lipow