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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 20:31:19 -0400
From: George Barron <gebarron-AT-InfoAve.Net>
Subject: Re: PLC: Marxist Propaganda


On 7/3/00 5:29 PM Kathleen Bethell wrote:

> So, George (she asked, hoping his reply would stimulate some bracing
> debate on the list), what in philosophy, literature and/or criticism
> fascinates
> you?

Maybe we can do something with the Marxist propaganda.

The other George wrote:

> Radical ideas are a
> form of entertainment --literature and hence the growing significance of
> literary criticism as a cannibalistic ideology that has been increasingly
> dominating much of the universities.

I'm not sure what he means by cannibalistic ideology but he suggests that
under the current capitalism this 'layer' of the working class, and
supposedly the upper class as well, have corrupted literary criticism in
some way. From what I have been exposed to in contemporary criticism I tend
to agree that we are not seeing a high water mark in literary criticism and
I will go on to agree that there is much in the current radical freemarket
capitalist society that might erode learning in the humanities in general.
So the question is, what can a Marxist government/society do to improve on
the current status of literary criticism and how. I might add that most in
academia might take exception that anything is wrong at all.
-- 
George
gebarron-AT-infoave.net




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