Jim Devine posted:
Sunday, December 10, 2006 Not Dead Enough. posted by lenin http://leninology.blogspot.com/2006/12/not-dead-enough.html Pinochet is dead, but not dead enough. To see him as simply another vile bastard dictator who has snuffed it is to miss the point. He was crucial, inasmuch as he provided the opportunity for advanced capitalist states to test in the periphery a doctrine that lurked in the margins of political discourse back home.
Big fat yawn... I've read this before. That's b/c these are crib notes of David Harvey's _A Brief History of Neo-Liberalism_. How pretentious... using Pinochet's death as an excuse to pontificate about the archeology of neo-liberalism, with nary an original thought. It's not like he/she HAD to do this, like some of us phone in the work effort when the mandates of paid academic labor call. This is a VOLUNTEER job. At the very least he/she could plagiarize an innovative analysis of an understudied phenomenon. But which self-identified neo-Marxist doesn't have his/her diagnosis of the 1970's crisis (most of which are numbingly familiar)? At least Harvey livened up his tale of the Labor Party's unsuccessful reign with anecdotes of the gravediggers' strike... unburied corpses piling up in the morgues and all that. This Leninology posturing is paint-by-numbers. JG _________________________________________________________________ MSN Shopping has everything on your holiday list. Get expert picks by style, age, and price. Try it! http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/?ctId=8000,ptnrid=176,ptnrdata=200601&tcode=wlmtagline
