On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:53 PM, John Gulick <john_gulick at hotmail.com>wrote:
> To the extent I have been critical of Dean, it was not long before OWS
> popped off, when she was making the interview rounds for her upcoming
> "communist" book. By virtue of her book's subject matter, she presents
> herself as an expert on Leninist party organization, centralism versus
> horizontalism, socialism versus anarchism, etc. When I hear her speak, I
> don't
> get the impression she's an expert at all, especially regarding the history
> of
> debates between these movements and tendencies and whatnot, in relation
> to their failures and successes. To the degree that she does offer good
> insights,
> sometimes I think that her propensity to slip into pomo-ish jargon occludes
> those
> insights. And sometimes I think the jargon disguises (barely) the absence
> of
> insights. (And I'm not opposed to jargon per se, nor high theory, BTW.)
>