On Sep 27, 2006, at 9:31 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> Is anyone on this list planning to attend the Rethinking Marxism
> conference
> in Amherst this October? Doug? Michael P.? Max? Yoshie? Jordan?
> Carl?
> Joanna? Anyone?
>
> I was not sure about my October travel schedule so initially I did
> not plan
> to attend, but now it looks like a possibility. I missed the paper
> submission deadline and I am a little bit put off by the apparent
> heavy
> pomo/culturalist bias of the plenary sessions, but I still think that
> face-to-face (as opposed to virtual) contacts and exchanges are
> important.
>
> BTW, I think that imperialism and globalization are essentially a
> good thing
> for the same reason Marx thought capitalism was essentially a good
> thing -
> it clears the field of petty nationalisms and their institutional
> appendages
> and separatist identities, and moves one step closer toward a global
> governance system that is a necessary condition for socialism.
>
> Wojtek
>
>
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