Telos started off in 1968 as a New Left journal. For a number of years it devoted itself to promoting and popularizing the work of the Frankfurters along with other Western Marxist thinkers like Lukacs. Later on they began to take up the work of Carl Schmitt, the noted Nazi legal theorist and they began publishing the work of the French New Right theorist Alain de Benoist. So it seems that the Telos gang has managed to replicate the political trajectory followed by the New York Intellectuals after WW II, except they have done so with even more pretentious language than that of their predecessors and have hooked up with some even more toxic elements.
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---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Subject: [lbo-talk] "The Telos Gang, was ] Russell Berman. . . Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 09:15:07 -0500
Telos went through several 'stages.' For several years it was seriously useful in bringing to our attention various strands of European Marxism and various theoretical issues. Then there was a jumbled period; and then a plunge into the abyss. So voices from The Telos Gang are not necessarily uniformly toxic.
Carrol
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