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

Yoshie Furuhashi critical.montages at gmail.com
Sun Jan 14 09:43:45 PST 2007


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 <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>



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