On 12/3/06, Angelus Novus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In terms of practical politics, assimilating an ecological or feminist or anti-racist critique, you have something that might be termed Modular Marxism. In a desparate attempt to prove how nice and open and non-dogmatic they are, Marxists are willing to accept all kinds of little modular adjustments to the basic Marxist unit, like slapping some extra RAM or a new video card on your PC. The message to queer, environmental, feminist, and anti-fascist and anti-racist activists is: "hey, all you secondary contradictions, there's room for all your modular concerns here on the Marxist CPU."
It's also possible, though, for people who start out as feminists, anti-racists, gay liberationists, environmentalists, anti-fascists, and so on to eventually arrive at Marxism by coming up against and thinking about class contradictions within feminist and other movements as well as the limits capitalism puts on the extent of social change that can be achieved by issues and identity movements. So, I'd say that there has been and will be cross-fertilization between Marxist standpoints and other standpoints, sometimes due to people literally going back and forth between the two or more. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
