Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Feb 7 22:19:55 PST 2003


At 4:45 PM -0800 2/7/03, Miles Jackson wrote:
> > BTW, I forgot to name Todd Archer, Joanna Bujes, Alexandre Fenelon,
>> Christian Gregory, Sergio Lopez, Mark Pavlick, and Albert Sonntag.
>> (I reiterate my hope that those included in the "Marxist Camp" above
>> won't object to inclusion.) I may be still forgetting some here.
>
>[imitation of the donkey in Shrek:] "pick me! pick me!"
>
>Miles, doing his best to validate rightwing paranoia about
>Marxist tenured profs in the public education system

Sorry to have left you out. I should also count Grant Lee, unless he has already permanently relocated to PEN-l. Who else? Alex Lantsberg (who seldom posts). Chris Brooke (who hardly ever posts). On the strength of his favorable remark on Walter Benjamin, among other things, I'd also love to include Chris Kromm, but he has seldom posted lately. Perhaps, what I'm seeing here is the disappearance of not just Marxists but most interesting leftists from LBO-talk.

At 6:33 PM -0800 2/7/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>"Je suis ne pas Marxiste." As I've said here, I don't think the
>label hasa point anymore. jks

I might use the term historical materialist instead as it means the same thing as Marxism to me, but that's unfortunately two words, and it probably sounds like just a school of philosophy to most people (if they know what it means at all).


>SergioL652 at aol.com wrote:
>
>>In a message dated 2/7/2003 7:13:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>>furuhashi.1 at osu.edu writes:
>>
>>>BTW, I forgot to name Todd Archer, Joanna Bujes, Alexandre Fenelon,
>>>Christian Gregory, Sergio Lopez, Mark Pavlick, and Albert Sonntag.
>>>(I reiterate my hope that those included in the "Marxist Camp" above
>>>won't object to inclusion.) I may be still forgetting some here.
>>>
>>
>>
>>I don't object, except I can't consider myself a Marxist since I
>>haven't studied Marx in any significant way. I am just learning
>>from the group, if you don't mind.
>>
>>Sergio Lopez
>
>Yoshie, I'm afraid your Marxism detector needs some recalibration at
>the factory.
>
>Doug

I've expansively interpreted Marxism, as most self-identified Marxists have already vanished from the list -- hence the subject of the thread. -- Yoshie

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