> disputatious, the cult seems to be led by Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, who wrote a
> 100-page polemic in the debut issue of their journal, Red Orange,
> denouncing, among other things, the "Routledge-Verso" cartel, whose main
> fault seems to be failing to publish the works of Zavarzadeh. Their saner
> face is Teresa Ebert, author of Ludic Feminism, who is married to
> Zavarzadeh. Over the years, they've dispatched several grad students to
> harass various email lists, including the first Spoons Marxism list and the
> Marxist Literary Group list.
Hilarious. I love the delicious irony of grad serfs, the newly outsourced reserve-army of the underemployed intelligentsia, being outsourced to ideologically combat the outsourcing of outsourcing via, um, well, ideological outsourcing. They should start a business, "Rent-a-Grad" or something, where you can hire ideological attack dogs on an hourly basis.
Seriously, though, the Orange Crush does represent a dangerous sectarian diversion of potentially revolutionary culinary energies. To combat this not-quite-statistical deviation, I hereby petition the LBO collective to charter the First Transnational League of Lumpen-Meringue-ism. Our basic goal will be to throw meringue pies in the faces of our running poodle pig-bourgeois opponents (no, it can't be cream pies, which are a counterrevolutionary plot, because anything that yummy has to be evil). I nominate Doug for Supreme Piester. Max, where's your chef's hat?
-- Baker's Boy