>The reason that this is important to understand is that Monthly Review Press decided to sell a Pluto Press book titled "Science and the Retreat from Reason" on the basis of its "Sokal-like" strengths. There was some merit to their assumption, but the book itself was an affront to everything MR stands for. < we should remember that MR published a long critique of the book by John Bellamy Foster. BTW, I think a good case can be made that Sokal is an adherent of critical realism, which to me seems an important part of the Marxist world-view (it's akin to "dialectical materialism"). On the other hand, I don't think it's worth spending a lot of energy on whether or not some thinker (Sokal or Lacan or whoever) is (really) a "Marxist." Names are less important than deeds. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/JDevine.html
