[lbo-talk] kvetching about Sontag's relation to the closet

Michael Dawson mdawson at pdx.edu
Sat Jan 8 08:43:06 PST 2005


Brian: She was the Tommy Hilfiger of culture.

Yoshie: That's unkind. I'd say she was Fred Engels of post-structuralism...

Fred Engels was Marxist (historical materialist) before Marx was. TCWC was a landmark work. Ask Marx. Plus, Fred ghost-wrote quite a bit of what Marx put his name on. No Fred, no Karl.



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