Re: [Marxism] Good critique of Walter Benn Michaels's NLR article

2009-09-07 Thread Tyler Zimmer
No where is this insinuated. I can't understand how anyone could take that reading from his article. From his NLR piece entitled 'Against Diversity': “In 1947 –seven years before Brown v. Board of Education, sixteen years before The Feminine Mystique –the top fifth of American wage-earners

Re: [Marxism] Good critique of Walter Benn Michaels's NLR article

2009-09-06 Thread Tyler Zimmer
A good critique would take what he actually says and show how some of it is empirically wrong and politically a bad tactic. Well, what he sloppily insinuates about income inequality and New Left movements being the cause of it, is easily refutable. But as far as tactics are concerned, I'd