MJ is one of the ex- "Marxism Today" guys, if I recall, whose accommodation to neoliberalism makes my own political shifts to democratic liberalism seem like intransigent Marxist trogdolytism. I actually wrote a version of this essay that is still on kell's website (right kells?) that says that Marxism as a movement has had b/c the labor movement in the classic form is washed up for now -- I have stopped touting my own stuff (haven't you noticed?) but that piece is short and accessible and far more sensible than MJ's. He goes way too far. At least he says resistance will continue in a Foucauldian way.
Cruelty, manipulation, despair, indeed.
jks
--- Dennis Redmond <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
> > The left, as history knew it, is dead - and it
> will not be reborn
> > Martin Jacques
> >
> > Europe itself is a declining continent, squeezed
> between the overweening
> > power and influence of the US and the irresistible
> rise of east Asia.
>
> Nonsense. The EU is a 10 trillion EUR economy which
> produces most of the
> world's machine-tools, cars, cellphones and
> chemicals. Eastern Europe is
> picking up speed, and Russia is turning into the
> China of the EU - soaking
> up high-tech goods, while producing more and more of
> its own.
>
> -- DRR
>
> ___________________________________
>
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>
__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com