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Problem is when intellectuals substitute literary or aesthetic critical theory for Marxist theory and philosophy as with Nietszche , Post Mods , Left Business Observers, et al. It replaces materialist theory with a crypto-idealist philosophy. Today they ignore fundamental naturalism and biology. I'm not saying McKenna does this. Sent from my iPhone > On May 14, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > > If you look at the table of contents of Tony McKenna’s brilliant collection > of articles titled “Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective”, > you will be struck immediately by the seemingly eclectic combination of high > and popular culture with Vincent Van Gogh sitting cheek by jowl next to Tupac > Shakur. This, of course, leads to an interesting question as to the merits of > such a distinction. Keep in mind that Charles Dickens was basically the > Stephen King of his day. > > full: > https://louisproyect.org/2016/05/14/art-literature-and-culture-from-a-marxist-perspective/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Progressive Economics" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pen-l+unsubscr...@mail.csuchico.edu. > To post to this group, send email to pe...@mail.csuchico.edu. > Visit this group at > https://groups.google.com/a/mail.csuchico.edu/group/pen-l/. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/mail.csuchico.edu/d/msgid/pen-l/88cd386f-bb3b-f74f-a51e-de8c1fbba327%40panix.com. > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/a/mail.csuchico.edu/d/optout. _________________________________________________________ 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
