Left-Wing Melancholy Re: Marx After Marxism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jan 10 15:58:50 PST 2003


Christian Gregory wrote:


>Brennan's point is not to say who can or can't use the term
>communist--that's totally a figment of H&N's sensitive imagination,
>in which all critics become potential censors with despotic agency.

In my experience, Hardt often agrees with his critics.


>H&N use "communist" because they get all the symbolic credit for
>doing so but bear no significant risk for doing it.

I don't know. A guy who's done jail time has some standing as a risk-taker.

Doug



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