Hitch on Hardball

[Christian Gregory]

>But I remember listening to her deliver that talk at the RM conference (on my
birthday, December 7, 1996) and being very annoyed, asking myself, who the
hell is she talking about? And then, in subsequent months, I had many
conversations about the Sokal affair, narrowly, and the "merely cultural,"
more broadly, and 
discovered she had a serious point. Her critics
made her argument for her.
> 
> Doug
> 

I agree with her point--that for too many, sex/
gender/ race/ ethnicity/ ability are "secondary" to the primary contradictions
of capital. But such a broad claim would be helped if, _at a given moment_,
she/we could look at the possibility that class and the economy _are_ the
determining contradictions, while at other moments not. As Raymond Williams
once put it, the problem is always about the "order of determination" at any
given moment.

Christian