[lbo-talk] Is this the new left?

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of course, 'fresh ideas' aren't going to fix any of the real problems 
either. those fresh ideas will just strengthen capital's grip, which is 
what the pomos are trying to understand. marxist's answer is that the grip 
changes in response to marcro-level crises. ok. but that doesn't explain it 
at a more detailed level. of course a marxist would respond, we don't have 
to in order to fix the problem. but feminists and people of color and 
especially sexual minorities don't see that their oppression is necessarily 
going to go away with the Revo.

At 02:29 PM 7/22/2006, Carl Remick wrote:
>>From: joanna <123hop at comcast.net>
>>
>>What the style says to me is this: "...nothing is important except 
>>identifying myself as a member of the club." (This tack by the way is 
>>entirely consistent with what I observe in corporate culture, which has 
>>nothing but profound contempt for content.)
>
>You said it.  Most corporate communication is incantatory -- simply rote 
>recitation of the latest biz clichés.  This promotes tribal bonding within 
>the corporation.  It enables managements to hide out in the herd and duck 
>responsibility for developing fresh ideas.  And it keeps corporate 
>language at a
>commodity level -- ensuring that staff writers remain as interchangeable 
>as typewriters.
>
>Carl

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