I'm a great admirer of Reed. He can be a bit dry, which means he would not make a suitable demagogue. I mentioned him some days ago, without giving the reference for his article:
Obama, no by Adolph Reed, Jr. <http://www.progressive.org/mag_reed0508>http://www.progressive.org/mag_reed0508 My own comment can be found there with a myriad others. I don't agree with his assessment of Hillary, and while as cynical as I can be, I don't necessarily detach myself completely from bourgeois electoral politics; I like to be clear about what I'm doing, and I like to see people act and think with clarity about what they're doing. Reed is useful at least for puncturing the illusions of "progressives:, the "left", and maybe of some "liberals". I do think most of the left is utterly confused about a number of things, and racial politics is at the top of the list. We live in such an anti-intellectual country that even progressives never progress mentally beyond the level of talk radio. At 08:09 PM 5/10/2008, Doug Henwood wrote: >On May 10, 2008, at 9:55 PM, Ralph Dumain wrote: > > > It's bad enough to be a preacher, but > > to peddle this ignorant bullshit makes one wonder why Obama was so > > impressed by him. > >According to Adolph Reed, who lived in Obama's legislative district >at the time, Obama was thinking of running for mayor of Chicago, >before he dreamed of being the chief executive of the world >bourgeoisie. So he thought that joining Wright's church might give >him some street cred - he already had the Hyde Park liberals in his >pocket. > >Doug _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
