Wish, I could something you have not read like, C.Wright Mills, "The Sociological Imagination, " with its witty destruction of Parson' jargon, or, "The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology, " by my fave Alvin Gouldner, but, here is, maybe one...Alan Sica review in the AJS of the 4 vols. by Jeffrey Alexander, "Theoretical Logic In Sociology, " entitled Parsons, Jr.? Alexander has a great Durkheimian analysis of Watergate in one of his books, and had a great piece in New Left Review, here, "
What do you think of the arguments of the New Left historians, James Weinstein, Kolko, Sklar, that New Deal and Progressive reforms were just "corporate liberal" co-optation? Fred Block has a good critique in one of his books, taken from a Social Problems piece from the late 70's, "Beyond Corporate Liberalism." That the New Deal, was a class compromise/coalition of the most "enlightened" capitalists, needing an expansion of mass consumption, willing to accept unionization in the industrial sectors, in alliance w/ labor, because it would lead to a rise in the private wage and social wage and conscious of the way that class polarization if allowed to go too far, would lead to de-legitimation of the overall rules of the game by the popular classes and the potential of a revolutionary crisis.
(Yoshie, if you read me, which I doubt, why read anti-Leninists?) Dream On Corporate Liberalism DREAM-ON CORPORATE LIBERALISM: Racism and Classism in Cincinnati. Thomas A. Dutton, Professor. Department ... Corporate Liberalism. On ... http://www.overtherhine.org/events/dutton/ - 35k - Cached - Similar pages
Struggle for the Right To Rock: Racism, Corporate Liberalism, ... Struggle For The Right To "Rock": Racism, Corporate Liberalism, Cultural Hegemony & Black Music. AS Van Dorston. May 1990. Cold war ... http://www.fastnbulbous.com/hegemony_black.htm
A Review of M. Sklar's Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism... ... addresses the differences of the major judicial and executive participants during this period by examining them within the context of corporate liberalism. ... http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/brundage/20thcentury_grad_course/ sklar_review.html
Re: Social Structures of Accumulation ... 1) As a tip, "corporate liberalism" refers to "class compromise model" of the Keynesian welfare state (ie., ruling class concessions to working classes; trade ... http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism@lists.panix.com/msg26079.html
IALHI News Service: Roots of Reform ... Working from a 'corporate liberalism' perspective, Kolko, James Weinstein, Martin Sklar, James Livingston, and others have interpreted Progressive Era reforms ... http://www.ialhi.org/news/i0004_1.html
[PDF]v6n3 - American Liberalism, One Worldism & World-Systems Analysis File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML ... Transformation of the world into an arena for the economic acting of big corporations produced early in this century ‘corporate liberalism,’ at fi rst as ... http://csf.colorado.edu/jwsr/archive/vol6/number3/pdf/jwsr-v6n3-lentini.pdf
Back to Table of Contents Back to Multicultural Philanthropy ... Ellis W. Hawley, "The Discovery and Study of a Corporate Liberalism," Business Historical Review 52, no. 3 (Autumn 1978): 309-320. ... http://www.philanthropy.org/inside/multicultural_philanthropy/ curriculum_guide6_week1.htm
Universities and the Capitalist State -- Corporate Liberalism and ... ... Universities and the Capitalist State. Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894-1928. Price: $21.95. Co-op Discount: 10%. ... http://www.semcoop.com/detail/0299124045
Back to Alexander, (this recaps the tragectory of many more than
himself, though not of, noted contributor to, "The Insurgent Sociologist, "
now, "Critical Sociology, " Al Szymanski,
http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/szymanski.htm
> ... He also continued to search for a Marxist-Leninist movement which
> would follow the correct line and bring revolutionary consciousness to
> the masses. For years, he was involved with a group which was centered
> in Philadelphia and kept asking me if I had heard about its activities.
> I had to tell him it was a minor sect with no real political influence,
> and teased him about his eternal quest for a nonsectarian sect. When the
> Philadelphia group fell apart, he grudgingly acknowledged that there was
> truth to my remarks..." (The Philly group was probably, PWOC, btw, see
> Elbaum.)
http://sociology.berkeley.edu/alumni/viewbio_querylist.asp?ID=161
> ...When I came to Berkeley in 1969, I was one of two or three students
> NOT given any financial assistance -- my academic record at Harvard was
> that bad! In fact, I was fortunate simply to have been admitted. My first
> two years at Berkeley revolved mainly around becoming a true Marxist
> intellectual, learning as much from Fred Block and the journal then
> called "Socialist Revolution" (later "Socialist Review") as from my
> courses. As my politics moved from revolutionary to democratic socialist
> (and eventually to left liberal), however, I became aware that I had, in
> fact, experienced several key intellectual episodes during those first
> years -- these were the courses from Neil Smelser, Robert Bellah, and Leo
> Lowenthal. I managed to corral all three to work with me on my grandiose
> dissertation, which became even more so in the four years after its
> completion, and have kept closely in touch with Smelser and Bellah ever
> since.
(Bellah, btw, had some YCL/CPUSA involvements in his youth, see Ellen
Schrecker book on McCartyism and academia.)
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Michael Pugliese