Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk

Chip Berlet cberlet at igc.org
Sat Feb 8 09:35:15 PST 2003


Hi,


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> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Michael Pugliese
> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 11:47 AM
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>
>
> Chip>...yes/no G. William Domhoff
>
> While walking to a class taught by Bill Domhoff @ UCSC
> with a CISPES
> member on the way to another class, she said, "But, he's not
> a Marxist!, "
> as a demurral. Heh.

Yes, it was a trick checklist. Sklar and Domhoff do not consider themselves Marxists. Others don't really think C. Wright Mills or Doug Henwood are "real" Marxists.

As Kelley suggests, time to start slapping them on the table to measure size.

No photographs, please, we're skittish.


:-)

-Chip


> Favorite article title from Bill, from Kapitalistate, the
> great late
> journal, "Why I Am Not An Instrumentalist!, " replying to the
> structuralists. (Mike Rotkin, the socialist Mayor of Santa
> Cruz, now for
> the fourth or fifth time, regarded to his bemusement as on
> the Right-Wing
> of the City Council due to rancorousness over homelessness issues and
> solutions, said one of his favorire Socialist Revolution
> articles titles
> was, " The Triumph of Bourgeois Hegemony In The Face Of Nothing That
> Challenges It, " by John Judis in one of the issues from the
> first year or
> so of SR.)
>
> --
> Michael Pugliese
>
> "Without knowing that we knew nothing, we went on talking
> without listening to
> each other. Sometimes we flattered and praised each other,
> understanding that
> we would be flattered and praised in return. Other times we
> abused and shouted
> at each other, as if we were in a madhouse."
> -Tolstoy
>



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