[lbo-talk] gore vidal is an old, cranky prick

Matthias Wasser matthias.wasser at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 11:04:34 PDT 2009


On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:


> On 10/30/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > Life isn't about people. It's about Historical Forces.
>
> Since you are a Marxist and have been, at least in the past,
> sympathetic to poststructuralism, I find it odd that you get so
> endlessly exercised about this aspect of Carrol's thinking. Because
> he's right: Life is about the interaction of forces, and people only
> matter as indexes to those interactions.

"Life" is like that now? Or just the attempt to understand history and society?



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