abortion, activism & pomophobia (was: Activism and Avoidance)

[Brad De Long]

>I keep coming back to that passage in Eric Alterman's dumb pomobashing
>column in The Nation from several months ago, in which he attacked the
>theoryheads in all the familiar ways, and then wrote:
>
>>	"But here's the twist. [Reformist Social-Democratic
>>	Leftist Nelson] Lichtenstein is part of a perfectly
>>	Rortyite reformist Campaign for a Living Wage at
>>	the University of Virginia. This campaign is not
>>	about ending sexism, racism, or homophobia, but
>>	about getting janitorial staff a few extra bucks
>>	an hour. Who are its volunteers? Primarily, says
>>	Lichtenstein, faculty and graduate students from
>>	the pomo literature and theory crowd.
>
>This undermined Alterman's whole point, but neither he nor his editors
>seemed to notice.
>
>Doug

I think that Alterman noticed that this point deconstructed his earlier
argument, and that that was in fact the reason that he included it...

Brad DeLong