<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 1/5/01 11:43:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, <BR>dhenwood@panix.com writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">This "culturalist Left" has become a strawperson. People on this
<BR>list, for example, take seriously the tasks of union organizing and
<BR>political agitation; is there anyone here who thinks that slipping a
<BR>Public Enemy CD into the Discman is a revolutionary act in itself?
<BR>And lots of cult studs are involved in campus anti-sweatshop
<BR>campaigns, local living wage campaigns, and other very real world
<BR>concerns. And the "culturalist Left" label is applied recklessly to
<BR>people other than the practitioners of the politics of gesture or
<BR>style - to people who take race and sex seriously, for example, as
<BR>you seem not to. But last time I checked, race and sex were deeply
<BR>materialist things (and culture itself was embedded in material
<BR>practices and social relations). So instead of throwing around labels
<BR>with the intent to insult or disparage, could you provide some
<BR>example texts, thinkers, or ideas to illustrate your indictment?
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<BR>Doug
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<BR>I just changed my employer from the US Army Corps of Engineers to the EPA. <BR>Does that qualify me as part of the "culturalist Left"? ;-)
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<BR>Sergio Lopez
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