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 -- 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: <dhenwood-AT-panix.com> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html> --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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