elitism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 4 10:33:15 PDT 2000


Nathan Newman wrote:


>As I said, the criticism of the limits of democracy under capitalism has
>jumped off the rails into this postmodernist language swamp of
>"appropriation" and other language games, where every mass organization can
>be dismissed as illegitimate in favor of the literary rhetorical views of
>the writers and intellectuals lining up behind Nader.

Once again, I'm confused. You say you're voting for McReynolds, yet you've spent the last few posts making surreal claims about the grassroots noncorporate nature of the Democratic party and swearing for the bona fides of its satellite organizations. Why aren't you voting for Gore then?

Doug



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