Christian Gregory wrote:
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> > What part, the dour, humorless part? One could
> assemble some of your own posts into a proof text for that, or pick up an
> issue of Z. And as for Butler's criticisms, you mean to tell me there are no
> Marxists who think that feminism and the gay/lesbian movement are diversion
> from the real struggle, which is class struggle? You're not serious about
> that, are you?
Either Doug really can't read any critique of a belief he finds warming _or_ this is deliberate falsification. This paragraph in fact _supports_ my argument. He must know -- he has got to know -- that of course I will admit that there are SOME marxists who believe any old fucking thing you want to list. Marxists disagree with each other on many topics. And that is just what Doug and Butler regularly try to conceal, because to admit that there are differences among Marxists would in effect silence both of them forever.
There are marxists who oppose abortion. There are marxists who support u.s. imperialist ventures in Kosovo and the Mideast. And so forth. Of course this is the truth: and just because it is the truth criticisms of "The Left" or of "Marxists" are necessarily unprincipled.
Carrol
> To be fair, though, JB does just use a kind of reckless "they" in making these
> charges, as Hitch does. It's all the more contradictory for a student of
> Derrida, who is supposed to be about rigor and attention to detail. And it was
> most appalling to me b/c she would put everyone from Greider and you to Nancy
> Fraser into bed with Alan Sokal, which seems to me a bit much. The nuts at
> Syracuse and SUNY okay, but you? . . .
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> Christian
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> Christian