marxism on wgn-fm

Drewk Andrew_Kliman at msn.com
Sun Feb 18 12:17:03 PST 2001


Chris Burford wrote

"1. the chairperson saying many people in US universities remain impressed by Marx

2.Erik Olin Wright arguing that it is better to talk about the Marxist Tradition as a terrain of debate rather than Marxism, and

3.David Ruccio, Editor of Rethinking Marxism, arguing that a core concept of marxism is class exploitation.

None of these would of course be sufficient for Lenin.

I did not listen beyond the first 5 minutes and more may have been said, but the fear is that this is academic marxism, legal marxism."

Similar preoccupations dominated at a panel at the Brecht Forum in New York on Friday, "_Capital_ and Capitalism." Hector Figueroa, a local official in the janitors' union (SEIU) was an exception, but he was only 1 of 7 panelists.

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