I've been reading a bit of Bakunin lately (where he argues that Marx and Engels are really classic German chauvinists with a shiny ideology) and am getting suspicious that there may be something incoherent about the idea of an internationalism of people who are One of Us.
--- On Wed, 1/21/09, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 1:36 AM
> And E.P. Thompson's scathing take off on this piece,
> "Outside the Whale, in The Poverty of Theory (that
> essay is an attack on Althusser, if anybody still cares).
> You want Englishness that is both provincially proud and
> genuinely internationalist, go read EPT, a writer just as
> good, in a different way, as Orwell, and much more One Of
> Us. He runs the serious dangers of being subject to the
> enormous condescension of history from which he sought to
> rescue the English working class. That woukd be a shame and
> a loss.
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