Misc. threads

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Mar 22 05:42:03 PST 2000


Chuck Grimes wrote:


>A question for Doug to ask, Barbara Ehrenreich. One male list member
>wanted to know if you consider yourself the Martha Stewart of
>progressive politics? That is finding all the interesting and useful
>things to do with Marxism, without actually getting to close to the
>testosterone laden, dirty fingernailed, and sweaty business of it
>all. [I actually like reading her, but in the last thing Kelley
>posted, I notice BE dodged the hard part about class.]

Uh, I don't think I'll ask her that, because, among other reasons, BE is admirable and MS is annoying. What are you getting at? What does she dodge? Why is the hard part about class so manly, anyway? Isn't one of her recurring points that it isn't? And isn't she right about that?

Doug



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