Michael Moore

[Carol Stabile]

I think that you're right in saying that the trouble comes from those
legions of multicultis et. al. -- from a liberal position, specifically,
that represents gender and race as somehow detached from any kind of
economic belongingness.  It's that critique of left politics or, to put it
more bluntly, socialist politics that results in claims like "Marxism is
responsible for the racial purification of class" and so forth.  A kind of
advanced Cold War redbaiting?

carol


> 
> I see a lot of people saying "... gender ... race ..."; most are also
> struggling to figure out how to put it into practice.
> 
> I know this isn't the class-essentialist you're looking for, but I see a LOT
> more trouble from the entire legions of liberal and leftish
> "multiculturalists" and "cross-cultural communications" and "intercultrual
> management" types who ply some pretty thin approaches to gender and race
> issues, while entirely ignoring class (though at times they do talk about
> "poverty", as if it were a category of analysis on par with race and
> gender).  Zizek did a spin around the block on this in New Left Review
> lately (No. 225, Sept/Oct 1997).
> 
> Tom
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