File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9802, message 654


Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 23:16:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Left conservatism?


You're most eloquent here, Rob.

Just some footnotes ....

At 02:53 PM 2/27/98 +1100, Rob Schaap wrote:
>>Butler conceded that Pollitt and Ehrenreich don't deserve to be
>>characterized as conservatives but described a "new orthodoxy" of socially
>>conservative Marxists who want to revive an "anachronistic materialism" as
>>a tactic for marginalizing feminist, queer and racial justice politics.

If this is the Judith Butler I remember, she is an intellectual fraud and
elitist par excellence, a paradigmatic specimen of homo academicus, at home
in their world like no other.  That she would lie like this is very revealing.

>Pomos are the human manifestation of what Jameson calls the cultural logic
>of late capitalism.  Fashionable emptinesses without history or purpose -
>all exchange value and no use value.  Smug self-referential pastiches of
>decontextualised conundra regurgitated playfully as unreflective dogma.
>Blah, spit, moan ...

What poetry!
 



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