Signals

Uday Mohan udaym at igc.org
Sun Nov 26 19:25:00 PST 2000


I was being sarcastic, of course, with my double exclamatory enthusiasm about Tom's dismissal of a thread I was involved in. I see nothing "silly" about the sexual and racial discussions on lbo. Uday

kelley wrote:
>
> At 01:55 PM 11/26/00 -0500, Uday Mohan wrote:
> >Tom Lehman wrote:
> > >
> > > I can usually tell when the equity market is about to tank by the number
> > > of silly sexual and racial discussion threads going on LBO talk. Has
> > > anyone else noticed this LBO market signal?
> >
> >I have! I have!
>
> and there you have it. after more than two years, folks still don't get
> what doug meant byhis introduction to this list:
>
> "I hope this list will be a forum for speaking across intellectual and
> social boundaries that have divided the left, such as it is, for too long.
> Among these oppositions I'd like to see worked through are ones like
> class/identity, cultural politics/"real" politics, Marxism/postmodernism,
> universal/particularist, activism/theory, economics/culture, nature/labor;
> nature/culture, and labor/culture."



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