CB: This is a pretty nice group of thoughtlets, Rob. I almost don't want to clip it. Rob S.: A couple of thoughtlets - certainly not wholly satisfactory responses, but contributory factors at least: =clip- CB: I really like this one: Rob S.: [8] a confused, demoralised, pretentious, poncy, opaque and abstruse left, which rabbits on in journals rather than pubs, about 'differance', 'the phallus', and 'the subject' more than it does about people, death, despoliation and exploitation - oh, and hope. (((((((( CB: I would add to the following: Rob S. :"6] not a word of Marxian critique (or any other radical critique beyond fragmentary feminisms) has inhabited high-school courses for a generation, so it's off the cultural agenda;" CB: Not just absence of Marxian critique, but explicit, intensive and extensive anti-Marxist , anti-communist propaganda among workers throughout the history of the Soviet Union, etc., identification of anti-Marxism with patriotism ( to the point of identifying Marxism with treason ) and democracy. ________ _______________________________________________ Crashlist website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base
