Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:36:13 -0500 (EST)
From: louisgodena-AT-ids.net (Louis R Godena)
Subject: Re: M-I: Walicki



Doug sez:

>I've never seen the words "fashionable" and "Monthly Review" in the same
>sentence without an intervening negative. What ever are you thinking of,
>Louis?


Oh, I think *Monthly Review*, *Rethinking Marxism*, *NACLA* et al, epitomize
the "respectable" Left, where one would not be caught dead voicing a
politically "incorrect" sentiment or supporting a "real" Marxist-Leninist
revolution.  Where the likes of Henry Louis Gates or Cornell West can bandy
about the type of "emancipatory" "Marxist" horseshit that is *de riguer* in
certain academic quarters and still sit at the head table up at the Big
House.  Where bourgeois notions of "democracy" and "human rights" are part
of as much a part of the intellectual fodder as that served over at *George*
or *Atlantic Monthly*.  In short, your basic, respectable Big
Government-Welfare Capitalism organs.

That's what I'm talking about.

Louis Godena

*Note to Carrol Cox: By evoking the Clinton saga, I was merely illustrating
one facet of bourgeois "morality"; (ie, that you don't go public with your
illicit affairs) that seems to have gone by the boards.  There are others,
such as the public acceptance (resignation) of malfeasance among virtually
*all* public officials, the recognition that it doesn't really matter *who*
emerges as the "winner" in the seasonal election charade, and so on.

Shit like that.

Louis G 
 



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