Since I don't know her I have no feeling about her: I just think (no -Know) that anyone who advocates a "disciploned party today is politically irrelevant. I do note that none of her admerers on this list has said a word about how she expects to create this party. Also, she is either _seriously_ ignorant of modern political history on the left OR she means to establish a _Leninist_ party. "Disciplined Party" for anyone who knows any history _means_ Leninist Party. (And your friend Lou Proyect can tell you all about that.) There is certainly a scattered nostalgia on the part of some people for such a party, but they are mostly jokes. And the history of such parties has been the same story over and over and over again. (It refutes my claim that history never repeats itself.) Either the party becomes more and more lax about its discipline until it decays into a nonentity _or_ it splits and ssplits and s splits. . ..
How is she going to create her party?
Carrol
On 10/27/2011 6:54 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Oct 27, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
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>> Mine would be that a day or two or go you were asking who Jodi Dean was and now suddenly you know her well enough to brand her a red-hot sternly orthodox Leninist, who is moving her way down the academic ladder. And all that based on apparently slippery reading of her blog.
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> Man, people do love to hate on Jodi. Me, I like her a lot. She's even slept in our guest room, and is always welcome to return.
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> Doug
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