From: Zeynep Tufekcioglu <zeynept-AT-turk.net>
Subject: Re: analogy                                       
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 23:12:39 +0300


Adolfo,

One, while I'm at it and got you reading my post, I have in the past
directed a few questions about Peru to you, which you have not replied. You
might not be reading my posts of course, that's possible. But, you find time
for Malecki-bashing, and writing poetical putdowns against Quispe & co., and
one-liner wisecracks, I demand (!) that you find time for my questions too.
I can dish them out and repost them if you missed them.

Two, yes bourgeois intellectual life is finished. I feel similar things
about the arts too. But, they do rule the world for the most part, and the
struggle is political/ideological/economic as well as other forms of direct
confrontation. I think we do need to understand why, for example, Fukuyama
makes such statements at that point in history, what it corresponds to in
reality. We may see through bourgeois propaganda, we must make others see
through it. That requires understanding / reading their material as well. 

Three, don't mind me.  I'm posting to this list, currently, because I have
to do a lot of incredibly boring work with my computer and I'm cut off from
some of my real life activities. So, I post about subjects which do not
really top my list of priorities because currently I'm bored and frustrated,
simply put. Anyway, my mind is already very prone to sidetracking. So, don't
confuse what I say above about the need to follow bourgeois
ideology/propaganda with the range of subjects I seem to get tangled into in
the list. I don't claim they are unimportant, but some are of secondary
nature in terms of priorities.

We must follow the bourgeois propaganda/ideology/strategy very very closely.
Otherwise we risk creating an ivory tower of another sort. An ivory tower
where you only see the Marxist point of view, and don't really understand
what's going on the minds of millions who *are* entrapped in this ideology.

I quote Cervantes, I think second time for this list, when Don Quixote
wishes "if only his enemies were noble". Unfortunately, last century was
more like that where Marx argued against the likes of Ricardo. Now we have
despicable creatures against us - but they do still rule. 

Zeynep

>For Marxists, there is TODAY absolutely no time to waste with a bourgeois
>intellectual mileu that has LONG AGO ceased to produce anything of value.
>Moreover, were you to read "down to the footnotes" everything these worthies
>WORD PROCESS these days, you would do nothing else in your life and still be
>unable to get even 1% of that useless twaddle on board and ready for the
>garbage can!.
>
>There is no need to "understand" Fukuyama's "end of history", for example.
>Or the twaddle of those who see "polemical tautologies" in the basic tenets
>of Marxism.  First, because reality (history in development) soon dissolves
>these theories like "the smoke of a cheap cigar" and sinks these without
>trace in a very short time.  Fancy writing a serious Marxist analysis of
>Fukuyama, for example!
>
>There is only one way to deal with the pedantic pretensions of the
>bourgeoisie these days:  Laugh at them and poke holes in their absurdities!
>Do not waste time taking them seriously, because they are not, nor can they
>be at all in this period of history!  Bourgeois intellectual life is finished!



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