[lbo-talk] Is this the new left?

[Doug Henwood]

There is no "it" that is postmodernism. THere's a lot of variety  
under that single name. - Doug

On Jul 21, 2006, at 6:03 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:


> True, because it's so over.  But Berube was once a devotee.  (Some  
> years ago I listened to his ardent defense of Pomo in a debate with  
> Alan Sokal.)  Its political stance was a cloudy mix of Democratic  
> party left-liberalism and I.P., the source of the most choleric  
> attacks on Chomsky's anarchism since Vietnam days.  --CGE
>
>
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>> On Jul 21, 2006, at 5:06 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>>> Part of this comes from an etiolated survivor of the fake   
>>> radicalism of "Postmodernism."
>> Pissing on "postmodernism" is pretty lazy stuff.
>> Doug
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