Sandwichman wrote: > For me, the principal underlying contradiction of the current phase of > capitalism in the US is and has been the way that working-class consciousness > has been subordinated to subjective notions of "whiteness." <
I was thinking more in terms of a contradiction which could spawn a progressive movement... >It seems to me that the symbolic importance of the Obama election outweighs, >for the present, its inadequacy in terms of progressive policy. < yeah, having a Black man elected is a major blow against racism, unless he turns out to be as bad as Dubya (though of course he'd do it in a new and completely different way). > It is up to the left (if they're up to it) to make something of this opening, > rather than to snooze through it with the usual armchair-vanguardist grumbles > of disdain.< is this "armchair-vanguardist" a scarecrow figure set up just so that it can be knocked down? -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
