[lbo-talk] Inorganic Intellectuals and the Mythical Ideal of theMarxist Tradition (Re: Moderation)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 1/14/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> Class is a relation and a process, not an identity, a categorization of
> life styles, a job description. No empirical description, therefore, can
> reveal class. It has been a long time since I read Gramsci, cut I will
> venture a hypothesis -- the concept of "organic intellectual" is
> relevant only during periods of heightened class conflict. In other
> periods such might or might not exist, cut would be invisible, even to
> themselves, if they did exist. "Intellectual," too. is not an identity
> but a process.

Christianity was not organic to the New World, but it now is, so much
so that both the Sandinista and Bolivarian revolutions -- two
post-Soviet revolutions in Latin America, one in the twilight of the
USSR, the other definitively after the Soviet socialist era -- are
inseparable from Christianity.  So, it's possible that it takes at
least more than 400 years for an alien ideology to become organic,
assimilated into the common sense of the people and made into dream
stuff of national and regional popular culture.
-- 
Yoshie
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