[lbo-talk] the other diversities

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

Shag's interesting point is basically a Gramscian one against orthodox
Marxism and the old tendency of a portion of the left to fall into the trap
of focusing too much on the "base".  In the context of the Western Left in
the early 21st century, a left coming out of decades of post-political
identity politics, I think we need more than a few doses of vuglar Marxism
and a return to class (not to mention the changes in objective conditions
that I think make a more classical Marxist approach more applicable once
again).

~ In class, sorry for brevity.

Bhaskar

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Oct 13, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
> >
> >> On my way out of the door, don't have time to represent the WBM
> defenders
> >> on
> >> the list, but I just wanted to add that Reed is a fan and colleague of
> >> WBM.
> >
> > Yes, and who finds shag's version of WBM unrecognizable.
>
> Defending WBM is really the bottom line for you, isn't it? I can't
> think of another reason that you totally disregard the substance of
> her arguments and focus on her characterization of your house guest.
> But I recognize shag's WBM from the interview and the articles, and I
> further trust her reading because unlike you and me, she's actually
> read his book.
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