Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 08:06:51 -0500 (EST) From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu> Subject: M-I: Leave Doug Henwood alone On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, George Yudice wrote: > > Regarding what you write in response to my other comments, I am aware > that you personally are not responsible for all of lamentable issues I > raise. Yet there is a kind of synergy among the postings by Proyect, > Luzietti, Schwartz and yourself. You and Proyect look at each other > knowingly. Then by mere association you become predisposed against the > Frankfurt School. You wrote: "Aronowitz makes the point that he and > Jameson were strongly influenced by the Frankfurt school. This > automatically biases me against the Frankfurt School. I hope this > doesn't show too badly in my cyberseminar report." I think it reflects > badly on your posting. Arguments in behalf of "intellectual standards" > should include some kind of examination of such predispositions, no? > Louis: Look, George, I would appreciate it if you stopped trying to make an amalgam between me and Doug Henwood. Doug is a responsible public intellectual who in one issue of LBO makes more of a Marxist statement than an entire year of Social Text. I on the other hand am a complete lout. My Marxist is tainted with the nastiness of Groucho and the buffoonery of Harpo. But that's just me. I speak only for myself. I will continue to defend the fluffy shirt wisecrack throughout eternity by the way. Gary McClennan is a friend of mine but his gay sensibility comes first. If I didn't piss him off, then I feel no need to make an apology. I think this "homophobia" charge is being used in exactly the same way that charges of "male chauvinism" were used against Sokal. --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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