Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 15:06:51 +0500 From: Andy Daitsman <adaitsma-AT-mail.cc.trincoll.edu> Subject: Re: Gramsci, Laclau, Mouffe (and Bhaskar) >On Thu, 9 Mar 1995, Howie Chodos wrote: >> whether all Marxists (including those on this list, presumably) are tarred >> with the brush of bearing some responsibility for the crimes of >> totalitarianism committed under the banner of Marxism... >> ... We are in the sense that it is incumbent on us to explain what went >> wrong. > And on today, I wrote: > it is incumbent on anyone who >seeks to speak in the name of the Marxist tradition yet who wants to avoid >another devolution into a terrorist state, to come to grips with precisely >how Stalinism arose... >That fact may not tar all Marxists with the brush of mass murderer, but it >should give us pause to consider how someone who purports to agree with us >on some basic principles can so grossly differ on others. > Sorry for the plagiarism, Howie. Totally inadvertent. Andy --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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