[lbo-talk] Corey Robin's Reactionary Mind argument in miniature

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Fri Mar 9 09:38:56 PST 2012


yeah. gimme summa that negative dialectic treatment chaz!

At 11:40 AM 3/9/2012, c b wrote:
>Carrol Cox
>
> I disagree violently with the central propositions around which The
>Cantos are organized; I think of Ezra Pound as anincredibly generous
>person. All the propositions I the Essay on Man are wrong, but it is
>nevertheless a fount of wisdom.
>
>^^^^^
>CB: Analogously, Carrol Cox's discussion of Marxism and left politics
>has many exactly wrong propositions, but in a sort of negative
>dialectic, responding to Carrol's discussion critically generates some
>very clear correct statements about these subjects.
>
>Overall, responding to the "Reactionary Mind" should not mystify the
>topic. It has no secret essence. It's aim should be to generate
>popular rhetoric against the many reactionary themes in mass American
>political discourse.
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