[lbo-talk] Althusser, NLR and the meaning of 'Stalinism'

Matthias Wasser matthias.wasser at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 05:36:24 PST 2010


On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:11 AM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:


>
> Could you expand on this? I thought Anderson had been an enthusiastic
> proponent of Althusser. I read Gregory Elliot's book on Anderson, but I
> don't remember anymore what it said on this. Anderson now thinks Althusser
> was a repulsive shit?

I don't think it would be a very ambitious claim to say that Althusser was not a particularly good person. (This has nothing to do with whether his social theories are true or useful, of course.)



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