[lbo-talk] Ideology thread

[Tayssir John Gabbour]

On 12/12/06, Sean Andrews <cultstud76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> yes.  that's exactly my point.  there seems to be a far greater kind
> of vulgar marxist determinism to your understanding of intellectuals
> as a class than you let on.  And I think that's what the original
> argument was over Chomsky, his tendency of relying only on political
> and economic power to explain dominance in society, and the argument,
> attributed to him, that using complex language to consider ideology or
> its processes is not necessary but is basically just another form of
> class domination, in this case of the "intellectual class" over
> everyone else.

As explicitly stated, I'm performing "ideology critique" on marxism.
So yes, I am momentarily looking through a marxist lens to critique
marxist beliefs.

A REAL problem would be if I didn't. ;)

Personally, I think it's obvious that vulgar marxism is a form of
tunnel vision. I responded to nearly this exact point a few days ago:
<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20061204/024573.html>

The frequency of "violent agreement" is significant (but not
complete), so I'm limiting my response...

Tayssir