At 8:39 AM 11/1/96, Blair Sandler wrote: >And DEVELOPMENT BETRAYED is a book-length critique of modernism (NC theory >comes in for repeated attacks on just that basis) in the form of >development theory and practice, and a post-modern analysis of the need for >and possibilty of sustainable development. Well aren't we using modernism rather sloppily now too? There's the modernism of Marx and Freud, and the modernism of Pound and Eliot. What is distinctly modern about the idea of sustainable development? There's the famous bit in Capital, beloved of all red-greens, about how progress in capitalist production jointly robs the worker and the soil. Was Marx thereby a proto-postie? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>
