Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 09:54:26 GMT
From: Chris Burford <cburford-AT-gn.apc.org>
Subject: M-I: Post modernism in universities



Among the solutions to this problem, are not the following required:

1. an analysis of the balance of forces
in each academic department and campus site?


2. clarification of the points of unity and the points of 
conflict with postmodernist marxists and a decision about how to
handle the differences so that the possibility of uniting
against capitalist influences remains real?


3. A definition of the ideal of academic life which allows
marxists to unite with the majority of the academy, but with the 
advantage of seeing clearly that this ideal is under constant pressure 
>from the power relations of capital?


4. At a theoretical level, as well as being critical of postmodernism, 
would it not be useful to have a better understanding what it is
in the objective base that gets reflected in a distorted form in 
post-modernist thinking?


Chris Burford
London.




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