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On 5/6/13 1:48 PM, Jeff Goodwin wrote:
No surprise at all here. These are professors and grad students picking sides. In academia, postcolonialists and cultural studies types outnumber Marxists approximately 30 to 1. Career interests pure and simple will provoke a huge backlash against any Marxist critique of postcolonialism (or of mainstream economics, Keynesianism, sociology, political science, etc.).
Except that these are people who follow NLR, not the Quarterly Review of Postcolonial Hermeneutics. This does not exactly sound like a cultural studies type:
Chibber rightly locates the conditions of possibility for a Marxist resurgence in the academy in social movements beyond its walls … He ignores the fact, however, that a vibrant U.S. social movement did just take place in the form of Occupy—a diffuse movement that drew on the idioms of anarchism, liberalism, and certain forms of Marxism. Yet, because this movement did not limit itself to “the kinds of things that Marxists used to talk about” in the good old days, Chibber doesn’t mention it: it is not functional for buoying a rigorously restrictive Marxism.
Shahana Toor / 02 May 2013 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
