Chuck Grimes wrote: > I got very tired of the postmodern critique and its themes in arts and > culture and started reading Marx and very recently Trotsky. Back in the late > 90s I started on a selection of Marx to figure out what on earth the various > postmodern movements had to do with Marxism.
wasn't it Perry Anderson who argued that when intellectuals get separated from actual social movements -- especially when the social movements are totally demobilized -- they tend to focus totally cultural stuff (or abstract stuff like the "labor theory of value")? In this view, the PoMo trend could be seen as a symptom of the decline of the New Lefts of the 1960s/1970s. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
