On Aug 19, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Alan Rudy wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 19, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>>> The chief symptom of racism on the left is the failure to take seriusly
>> the intellectual and theoretical importance of the Black Panthers.
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>> A group that essentially disappeared before half the U.S. pop was born?
>>
>> Doug
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> Like most radical labor unions, Frankfurt School scholars, Karl Marx and a
> raft of other folks, no? You can't possibly be arguing that actions, groups
> and intellectual efforts that have been seriously outside the mainstream
> since 1978 - I just chose a date - are unimportant.
Of course not. But this centrality of the BPs that Carrol keeps harping seems rather disproportional. They were part of a broad upsurge. This "chief symptom" business sounds more like an advertisement for one's own righteousness than a serious bit of analysis.
Doug