Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 07:07:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: P.B. Proyect squirms some more


On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, rakesh bhandari wrote:

> 
> 
> This prosperity may have also predisposed some of them to the erroneous
> conclusion that further progress should also come easy if not through
> racist measures of exclusion than simply perhaps by voting for a new party
> candidate who promises to advance "their" interests: a Buchanan or a Perot
> or a Lamm.  Even progressive parties may indulge this prejudice of
> 'spoiled' Americans.  Without such illusions challenged, I simply don't see
> how workers will be prepared to advance themselves and and in the process
> go about creating  a truly democratic free association of producers,
> instead of voting in some fronted fascist candidate.
> 

Louis: I think it is important to locate MR on the current ideological
spectrum correctly. It is not a place where there is regular dissemination
of the sorts of ideas that Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff were coming up
with in the 1960s. Paul Sweezy is  85 years old and in very poor health.
His contributions to the journal are very limited nowadays. I anticipate
that the MR post-transition will much more closely resemble Socialist
Register. Ellen Meiksins Wood and John Bellamy Foster have both been
heavily involved with the production of recent issues.

With respect to the question of the consciousness of the American
working-class, I had recommended a thread a while back consisting of
readings from Lukacs, the Frankfurt School, Gramsci, Mike Davis, Kim Moody
et al. That was around the time we got swamped with Chris Burford's
triangulations with Malecki, Ruby Begonia, Quispe, and Martens.

End of story.



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