Re: [Marxism] Socialist Register 2017
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * clip from article on the counterposing of economic issues to those of social justice, by Bill Fletcher - a longtime defender of working within the Democratic Party What passes for identity politics should actually be understood as social justice struggles that aim for consistent democracy and become, as a result, component parts of the larger class struggle. These are not battles around one’s identity. This is not self-indulgent activity by people who, for whatever reason, do not recognize the importance of economics. Identity politics, at least the way that it has been used as a term since the election, describes a politics that asserts the need for representation of historically marginalized and oppressed populations; and the representation of their issues. In that sense, what we are discussing is social justice and not something that should even be described as “identity politics.” It is more a politics of inclusion and for democracy rather than a politics of distinctiveness or uniqueness. Capitalism is founded on classes and class struggle. Class struggle takes place over the basic question of the control of the means of production, distribution and exchange and, more generally, the control over the social surplus. But if someone stops there one misses actually existing capitalism. Capitalist states do not exist as some sort of economic abstraction but are rooted in specific histories. Those histories include multiple layers of oppression, some inherited from previous social formations (and modes of production), and others developed specifically within the context of emerging capitalism. In both cases, however, these forms of oppression, e.g., patriarchy; racism, have become central features of the manner in which actually existing capitalism operates. http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/identity-politics-social-justice > On 1/16/17 6:06 AM, Gary MacLennan wrote: > >> Genuine question, Lou - why is Benn Michaels one of your least >> favored? I have been reading his stuff on identity politics and would >> value your thoughts on his work. >> >> https://louisproyect.org/2009/09/04/a-critique-of-walter-benn-michaels/ > > > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Socialist Register 2017
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 1/16/17 6:06 AM, Gary MacLennan wrote: Genuine question, Lou - why is Benn Michaels one of your least favored? I have been reading his stuff on identity politics and would value your thoughts on his work. comradely Gary https://louisproyect.org/2009/09/04/a-critique-of-walter-benn-michaels/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Socialist Register 2017
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Actually the whole issue looks worth reviewing, as most of the authors are well-known and in at least some cases (especially Panitch) have intervened in real movements (in their case for the worse). Maybe we could split it up. On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > (Looks like I will be blogging about a number of the articles in the > latest SR on revolution from tenured professors, with three of my least > favorite theorists: Zizek, Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed. Patrick Bond, of > course, will be spared.) > > Socialist Register 2017: Rethinking Revolution > Table of Contents > Articles > > Socialist Register 2017 Preface > Leo Panitch,Gregory Albo > > The Distinctive Heritage of 1917: Resuscitating Revolution’s Longue Durée > Bryan D. Palmer,Joan Sangster > > Class, Party and the Challenge of State Transformation > Leo Panitch,Sam Gindin > > The Actuality Of Revolution > Jodi Dean > > Radicalizing the Movement-Party Relation: From Ralph Miliband to Jeremy > Corbyn and Beyond > Hilary Wainwright > > The Heritage of Eurocommunism in the Contemporary Radical Left > Fabien Escalona > > Revolution in a Warming World: Lessons from the Russian to the Syrian > Revolutions > Andreas Malm > > Beyond Eco-Catastrophism: The Conditions for Solar Communism > David Schwartzman > > South Africa’s Next Revolt: Eco-Socialist Opportunities > Patrick Bond > > Turning the Tide: Revolutionary Potential and the Limits of Bolivia’s > ‘Process of Change’ > Robert Cavooris > > Something Left in Latin America: Venezuela and the Struggle for > Twenty-First Century Socialism > Steve Striffler > > In Search of the ‘Modern Prince’: The New Québec Rebellion > Pierre Beaudet > > Marx and Engels on the Revolutionary Party > August H. Nimtz > > 1917 and the ‘Workers’ State’: Looking Back > A W Zurbrugg > > The ‘People’s War’ and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution > Wang Hui > > Revolution as ‘National Liberation’ and the Origins of Neoliberal > Antiracism > Adolph Reed > > Picturing the Whole: Form, Reform, Revolution > Walter Benn Michaels > > Addressing the Impossible > Slavoj Zizek > > On Revolutionary Optimism of the Intellect > Leo Panitch > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
