If I may be permitted a personal reference, it's nice to be back!
In recent discussions of race (where I think Walter Benn Michaels is on to something) and religion (where I rub shoulders with the Whore of Babylon), there have been some sharp suggestions that I really wasn't up to the Marx marks. Being vulgar seems on the road to rehabilitation.
On 8/19/10 3:43 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:11 PM, C. G. Estabrook<galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> An important theme of US elite propaganda - going back in fact to the 18th
>> century - is the inculcation of contempt for the unwashed majority on the
>> part of the political class (today roughly the 20% of the population who've
>> been to "a good college"). And the growth among the majority of the
>> suspicion that Obama is a Muslim is a confused but accurate recognition that
>> he's not working for them - so he must be working for someone else.
>> Unfortunately the class language that's necessary to explain the real
>> situation has been excluded from political discourse.
> Vulgar Marxism just doesn't get more vulgar that this. In
> Estabrookworld, race and religion are not even epiphenomenal or
> superstructural.
>
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