Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:24:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen C Tumino <sctumino-AT-acsu.buffalo.edu> Subject: M-TH: PANIC LEFTIST-FRAME SEVEN (Re:Ebert) Revolutionary Marxist Collective (Buffalo) ************************************************** PANIC LEFTIST - FRAME SEVEN Since Ralph Dumain, in his usual sensationalist manner (finding "incriminating" evidence in Ebert's work!) has suppressed Ebert's own voice and the other texts written on her exchanges with NEWS & LETTERS, we disseminate here her own letter as well as another by Zavarzadeh. We may also publish, in the future, Ebert's long and dense analysis in response to the review of her book in NEWS AND LETTERS: NEWS & LETTERS, DECEMBER 1996, P. 6 Laurie Cashdan's response--to my theoretical critique of her attempt to prove the correctness of Dunayevskaya's bourgeois reading of Marx as a humanist--does not develop an argument but keeps repeating the same point. Over and over, she claims I reduce Marxism to an economic determinism... Revolutionary feminism is not voluntaristic humanism but CLASS STRUGGLE to end the exploitation of people's labor and to transform the condition of oppression across differences. Teresa Ebert Guilderland, N.Y. ************************** NEWS & LETTERS, DECEMBER 1996, P. 6 It is a sign of the theoretical innocence of the cult of Dunayevskaya that the slightest contact with "theory" confuses them. Jim Guthrie (Readers Views, November issue) posits a "break" in Ebert's career: a postmodern period and a post-postmodern phase. Is he familiar with Ebert's groundbreaking texts in which she theorized "resistance postmodernism"? There are no "breaks" in her writings but a historical development. It is not Ebert's (or any theorist's) responsibility to avoid rigorous thinking in order to protect the innocent members of the cult from confusion. Mas'ud Zavarzadeh Syracuse, N.Y. --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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