I would agree that Mandel's book, my wisecrack notwithstanding, is really quite good and still pretty apropos on many points more than 20 years later. Barkley Rosser ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Robert Redmond" <dredmond at efn.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:01 PM Subject: Re: Communication
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Brad Mayer wrote:
>
> > And Mandel in particular should have known better than to put forward
this
> > (mis-) periodization, but announcing the "new new thing" is a good way
to
> > promote a book, as we've seen of late ("Empire").
>
> Mandel was actually quite the visionary, it's just that sometimes he gets
> caught up in his own world-historicality, as it were. His book "Late
> Capitalism" (original title, Spaetkapitalismus, thus the whole "late
> capitalism" imbroglio) is still very interesting and worth reading,
> because it's one of the first real attempts to think through the post-WW
> II Golden Age of consumer capitalism from an immanent standpoint, trying
> to think through the thing as a coherent mode of production. He doesn't
> always come up with the right answers, but he does ask many of the right
> questions.
>
> -- Dennis
>
>