[lbo-talk] Sam Gindin, ON THE REVIVAL OF THE WORKING

Eric Beck ersatzdog at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 10:13:17 PST 2009


On 12/16/09, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:


>I'm skeptical,
> for reasons I've bored with before, but also because in takes like
> Gindin's, "class" reads like an institution that exists a priori to
> actual struggle. I would think the idea would be to create forms
> during struggle, without the compulsion to unification.

By the way, this is one of the reasons I can't get behind the naming of the revolutionary vanguard. Doug's working class, Zizek's slum-dwellers, and Hardt and Negri's immaterial workers all assume a political subject before the actual politics has happened.



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