----- Original Message ----- From: "Marvin Gandall" <marvgandall at rogers.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference'
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
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Oh come on, staleness and redundancy are fashionable.
As if politics and economics didn't have lots and lots and lots of cultural and philosophical assumptions and 20th century notions of materialism must remain within the idiom of pre quantum theoretic ontologies........
Ian