----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
> This points in a number of directions. Let me pull on one thread
now.
> I'm not clear on the sense of "strategic" in this context. I spoke
to
> Max as a fellow-marxist -- that is, I did not intend the post to be
an
> argument for marxism but an argument that presupposed marxism as a
> shared perspective. I concerned myself primarily with identifying
limits
> of marxism from within marxism. Perhaps it should have been off-list
> even, but I posted it on list as a peg for whatever more Max might
want
> to say.
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Got it. It's how we deal with the limits of marxism around issues of
sex, race, lifestyle stuff etc. that is critical right now.
Defensiveness and hostility in defense of one's defensiveness is
counterproductive.
Ian