[lbo-talk] Times on Said

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> Gosh, hope Chomsky's doesn't come too soon.
> 
> It struck me reading that vile piece of crap this morning that people
> like Bernstein (and our comrade Brad) despise people like Said
> because he's a class traitor. Prominent intellectuals who, instead of
> joining the ruling class and cashing in, turned into some of its most
> prominent and forceful critics. Such an inconvenient problem.
> 
> Doug

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> From that vile piece crap:

In interviews, he identified himself as a kind of perpetual outsider, a
man influenced by two cultures, the Arabic and the American, but
belonging fully to neither.

"I've never felt that I belonged exclusively to one country, nor have I
been able to identify `patriotically' with any other than losing
causes," Mr. Said wrote in The Nation in 1991."

WS:
That is an ultimate prize in my opinion.

In essence, the obituary summarizes Mr. Said's work and political
positions, including the fact that he was considered controversial by
Israeli nationalists.  Maybe I am missing something, but I do not see
what is so vile about that piece.

Wojtek