> I'll be there presenting a paper on Friday afternoon. My oldest daughter
> will be along checking out several colleges in the area, so I don't know
> how much time I'll actually be spending at the conference.
> Michael McIntyre
>
> 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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