[lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference'

[Marvin Gandall]

You're both right, but it's not peculiar to the US left. Perry Anderson's "Considerations on Western Marxism" (1979) is still well worth reading as an examination of how dashed hopes in a working class revolution moved many Western left-wing intellectuals away from materialism to idealism, from politics and economics to culture and philosophy -- a trend which would later culminate in postmodernism. (I hope this last reference doesn't reopen another stale debate on that subject).

Marv Gandall

  ----- Original Message ----- 

  From: Chris Doss 

  To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org 

  Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:02 AM

  Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference'

  Dollars and Sense is a pretty good left econ pub too, but suffers from

  the same low readership problem.  The problem is that any Left position

  is mightily unpopular in the US (it is a Dog's country, after all)  and

  those who are attracted to it are idealistic/culturalistic types, often

  with upper middle class background, who do not give two shits about how

  the real world really works.

  Wojtek

  --

  Maybe I'm mistaken, but I think a lot of the US left tends to be big on moralizing and short and facts. Moralizaing's all well and good, but be sure you know what you're talking about first. (Are you listening, Counterpunch?)

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