anguard of Retrogression: “Postmodern” Fictions as Ideology in the Era of Fictitious Capital

[Chuck Munson]

Michael Pugliese wrote:
> 
> Goldner's Marxism
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> Loren Goldner, Vanguard of Retrogression: “Postmodern” Fictions as
> Ideology in the Era of Fictitious Capital, Queequeg Publications, PO
> Box 672355, New York, NY 10467, 2001. Paperback, $10.
> 
> Reviewed by Cyril Smith
> 
> THE STARTING-POINT for this volume is the rapidity with which the ’60s
> wave of radicalism evaporated:
> 
> “By 1971, it was clear that the whole culture of the previous 30 years
> was fading away. In New Left bastions like Berkeley, people, who only
> 1-2 years before had wanted to be ‘professional revolutionaries’, were
> now scrambling to be just ‘professionals’: lawyers, doctors,
> academics, but, of course, ‘in an entirely new way’.”

Really? Radicalism evaporated after the 1960s? Has this author bothered to
read any books on the history of struggles in the 1970s and 80s?

Somebody should send a big clue to this guy that the SDS wasn't the only
thing happening during the 1960s.

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