[lbo-talk] Thoughts on Butler

Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Mon Jun 9 06:23:02 PDT 2008


Voyou writes:


> This strikes me as an
> oddly elitist anti-elitism; Chomsky has decided, on the part of the
> common man, that the common man needn't worry about all that fancy
> Judith Butler stuff. An unexpectedly egalitarian moment in Lenin
> provides the right response here:

^^^^^^^ Yes, it does.

However, Lenin is typically egalitarian, so it is not unexpected that he would be egalitarian.

Charles ^^^


>
> "It is necessary that the workers do not confine themselves to the
> artificially restricted limits of literature for workers but that
they
> learn to an increasing degree to master general literature. It would
be
> even truer to say "are not confined", instead of "do not confine
> themselves", because the workers themselves wish to read and do read
all
> that is written for the intelligentsia, and only a few (bad)
> intellectuals believe that it is enough for workers to be told a few
> things about factory conditions and to have repeated to them over
and
> over again what has long been known."
>
>
http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/ii.htm#v05fl61h-373-GUESS

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