----- Original Message ----- From: <JKSCHW at aol.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 8:44 PM Subject: Re: "New Class"? Weber Redux! (was Re: whatever [something aboutobjectivity])
> In a message dated 00-02-17 20:26:50 EST, you write:
>
> << Used to see his work more often, is he still at Univ. of Wisconsin? >>
>
> Yes. And he has a new volume, Class Counts, well, relatively new. I think
you
> hear less from him because his analytical Marxist mileu collapsed. There
is a
> good critical discussion of his views in Recent Marxisn Theory, by Sitton.
> The upshot of these criticisms, which I think is justifies, is that Wright
is
> too mechanical. He tries to read ideology off class position, and spends a
> lot of effort trying to get the class position specified just right.
Nothing
> wrong with the latter attempt, and nothing wrong with trying to see how
far
> you can get in explaining political behavior and ideology from raw
material
> interests, but I was bitten by E.P. Thompson at an early age, so I don't
> think you can get all that far with that approach.
>
> --jks