Rob Schaap on Foucault

[Justin Schwartz]

Well, during much of Marx's life, workers were organizing the First 
International; his political career started with a revolution (1848) and 
more or less ended with another (1875). He went throughta  period of 
retrenchment and resignation in the 1850s. And besides, Marx hadn't been 
through what we have. Even if it would not have been irrational for Marx to 
expect revolution immanently, that does not reflect one way or another on 
what it is rational for us to expect today. --jks


>From: "Charles Brown" <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: Re: Rob Schaap on Foucault
>Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 23:22:49 -0400
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> >>> jkschw at hotmail.com 06/12/01 11:04AM >>>
>As for
>Foucauldian pessimism, any Marxist who is optimistic in this day and age is
>blind or fanatical. --jks
>
>(((((((((
>
>CB: Wouldn't an optimistic Marxist in Marx's day and age have to be the 
>same way , a blind seer and a fan of revolution ?
>

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