On Wed, December 31, 1997 at 15:12:12 (-0800) Dennis R Redmond writes:
>On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, William S. Lear wrote:
>
>> I'm tempted to say that the one thing that postmodernism and Marxism
>> can't offer to people, just ordinary people, is insight into how to
>> think. Postmodernists might be ab
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, William S. Lear wrote:
> I'm tempted to say that the one thing that postmodernism and Marxism
> can't offer to people, just ordinary people, is insight into how to
> think. Postmodernists might be able to tell Marxists a thing or two,
> and vice-versa. Perhaps postmodernism
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
> productive/unproductive sort - the "fake" Trotskyists denounced by the
> Sparts (who are the authentic Trots, it goes without saying), or the
Doug, one of the great misfortunes of the American left was the decline
and fall of the SWP, Trotsky's favorite
William S. Lear wrote:
>I presume the preceding prodded you to write the following because you
>feel Marxists should open up a bit and acknowledge some of the
>insights postmodernism offers us?
[...]
>So, this points out that rigid dialectics is, well, rigid and
>something even a child sees bey
On Tue, December 30, 1997 at 16:52:08 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
>Dennis R Redmond wrote:
>
>>I just wish we Leftists spent more time acknowledging the richness
>>of the dissident tradition and thinking through its heritage instead of
>>constantly creating our own imaginary Cold War internment c
Dennis R Redmond wrote:
>I just wish we Leftists spent more time acknowledging the richness
>of the dissident tradition and thinking through its heritage instead of
>constantly creating our own imaginary Cold War internment camps for those
>thinkers deemed insufficiently radical, in unwitting ech
Doug Henwood quoted Adam Phillips,
>Every child rightly wants to know whether there is a position
>beyond exclusion or difference or separateness - a world in which leaving
>and being left out disappears . . .
Reuben, my four year old (on the first), just says, "*Fast* is my favorite
opposite."
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On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Dennis Grammenos cross-posted from David Curtis:
> Cornelius Castoriadis Dies at 75
> Philosopher and Political Thinker Inspired
> May '68 Rebellion in France
>
> ...Nor did he fit
> the mold of German critical theorists, from Max Horkheimer, Theodor
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Subject: Death of Cornelius Castoriadis
Dear Friends, Colleagues:
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