File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1996/96-11-09.204, message 3


Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 16:01:52 -0500
From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: Re: M-I: beyond the pomo wars


At 4:45 AM 11/7/96, dr.bedggood-AT-auckland.ac.nz wrote:

>The Pomos, like all bourgeois organic intellectuals
>have to be destroyed on the road to revolution.

To quote Bob Dylan, from his early dotage period, "maybe I'm too sensitive,
or else I'm going soft" - but I think this kind of rhetoric serves no
useful purpose. There are a lot of good folks who think of themselves as
pomos, or under the influence of pomo. I think they're wrong, and I'll
argue with them forever, but unless they're really bourgeois, they're not
the enemy. Ditto lots of religious people. I think religion is a crock, but
there are many fine people who believe in God and all the rest. If people
do the right thing - if they're on the right side of the barricades,
metaphorically speaking - then they're not the enemy. There are enough real
enemies around.

Let's look at our old friends, the ruling class. They're perfectly capable
of smoothing over differences when real issues are at stake. They've also
proven quite adept at - at least partially - leaping over fissures like
nationality, sex, and even race. Visit an annual meeting of the World Bank
and IMF and you will see a very multicultural crowd of ministers and
bureaucrats, who know which side of the class war they're on. Suggestion,
if not proof, to me, that class can be a powerful unifying instrument.

Doug

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