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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)

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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.

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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.




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