[lbo-talk] anti-pro contradictions

[Alan Rudy]

If you are saying that some of the left are not concerned about whether
there is a primary identity that defines the left, and its potential
constituencies, I'm with you... but the issue does seem to be a regular
concern here.
I don't think you have to be hung up on post-modernism - the intellectual
exercise - to be concerned about a situation where the political utility of
class, or race, or gender, or sexuality, or nationality, or community, or
nature serve little political purpose in terms of further developing the
left, actively get in the way of further developing the left, and
all-too-often don't even serve as starting points for a more integrated if
not determinate politics.  You, yourself, recently posted a link pointing to
an article that addressed the deeply fractured state of politics here in
MI.
For the folks not "hung-up" on the implosion of the subject of history given
post-modern conditions, is there a vision of collective identity or shared
community, and if not, how are people being recruited?  Simply by dint of
their class location?

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:14 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Alan Rudy
>
> "...its also that the left seems - given post-modern uncertainty about
> singular or even primary identities - to have no clear alternative
> vision of community"
>
> ^^^^
> CB: I think this should be "some of the left".   Some of the left is
> not hungup on post-modern uncertainties.
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Alan P. Rudy
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Central Michigan University
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