>>> shag
heh. i remember treading pretty lightly in spaces devoted to discussion of lit theory and cultural studies where people who studies sociology were
seen as archaic holdovers still doing that silly positivist research stuff. and even if you were doing qualititative research there was the antipathy to anything that was empirical -- because of the postmodernist critique of the colonizing impulses of all the social sciences which were understood to be tools of
^^^^ CB:This was in part because this school of thought bought in to anti-Sovietism and anti-communism, anti-Leninism. Based in a scientific view of history rooted in attention to the necessary connections in human socieyt, the Marxists and socialist countries had been carrying on the battle against imperialism, racism and genocide for all those years, yet this school of thought bought into the bourgeoisie's red-baiting and anti-communism and anti-Sovietism. The anti-social science and anti-socialist science schools of thought that Jerry mentions throw out the baby with the bathwater in their critiques of socialism as it actually went down in history.
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