[lbo-talk] Time to Get Religion

[Chuck]

Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:
> On 12/3/06, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> > Lack of ideology critique? Have you ever cracked a
>> > book written by anarchists?
>>
>> Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent, to take one example.
>> Lot's of detailed institutional analysis (to use his
>> own phrase) of the North American news media.  Nothing
>> approaching ideology-critique.
> 
> 
> I think you want to go one level down from things like anarchism.
> After all, you'd want to critique anarchism itself -- its limitations
> and nature.
> 
> The most serious work on this topic that I currently know of actually
> comes from an anarchist. Michael Albert's work on radical theory.
> Among other things, he uses it to illustrate the limitations of an
> anarchist framework.

Michael Albert is not an anarchist.

If you are going to make suggestions like this, it might help to know 
some basics about anarchism and the contemporary anarchist movement.

It might help if Angelus explained what he means by "ideology-critique." 
Is this some kind of academic thing I'm unfamiliar with?

Chuck