[lbo-talk] Sam Smith on Doug Henwood

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Fri Feb 9 17:03:20 PST 2007


Yoshie wrote:


>One function of culture is to remember, and one function of culture
>on the Left is to remember what the ruling class have us forget.

Easier said than done. If I wanted to choose a one line rejoinder to undifferentiated pomo-bashing it would be this one from Jameson:

"It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place"



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