[lbo-talk] Re: Krugman

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Thu Jun 5 08:43:24 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>


> The left isn't immune to the easy consistency, even at the high end.
> Some Marxisms purport to explain everything as emerging from the laws
> of motion of capital; "it is no accident that...," as the vulgar
> Marxists used to say (to steal a phrase from John Leonard). Your
> average Pacifica listener believes all kinds of conspiracy theories -
> Bush planned 9/11, Unocal the Afghanistan war, etc. There's no room
> for the messy or accidental in that sort of worldview.
>
> Doug

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Didn't Lash and Urry try to persuade leftists to let go of the unity/consistency fantasy in "End of Organized Capitalism"?

Ian



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