[lbo-talk] Racizlization

[shag carpet bomb]

ha. i kinda figured that the whole point of embracing michaels' work
*was* precisely to preserve the province of declaring that, no matter
what, there *is* such a thing as an objective timeless source for
making judgments of taste. which is what michaels unabashadly says in
the end of his book: there are some things that taste better than
others. there are some products and fashions that are superior. there
are habits and ways of life that are superior. there's no dispute.
it's not cultural. it's not subjective. it is the way it is. how it
got that way, he doesn't say, but it is one of his final points in a
book where that final point doesn't need to be said in order to have
made his case. still, he found a way to say it.

what an old mentor used to say when analyzing a text: ask what the
author is afraid of.

michaels is afraid of relativism, i think.


> If you want to see how racizliaztion works, study a rrepresentative
> sellection of lbo posts which use the terms "hippie" and
> "middle-class."
> For LBO at least both of those terms refer to races created by lbo
> posters; they are a way of stopping thought rather than contributeing
> to
> i.
>
> Any left won't be worth much that can't incorporate and show respect
> for, give a real voice to, the groups of people so labelled and
> slandered on this list.
>
> References to these groups are as vicious as any of the practices Lou
> Proyect has described as stifling political life in the SWP.
>
> Do posters on this list really want a left organization in which all
> members are simpatico?
>
> The use of these terms is pretty fucking disgusting.
>
> Carrol
>
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