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> > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > > 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 > > Shahana Toor is QUOTING Taylor in this passage, Louis. Here's the entire post: *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. * * * -Chris Taylor In his concluding chapter, Chibber does discuss the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement as reasons for optimism in our times. He points out how activists in Madison and London were inspired by their counterparts in the Middle East. And yes, the aspirations in these movements across the globe were universalistic, economic and political empowerment for the wretched of the earth, across geographical divide. “A will to criticize,” Taylor asserts, “makes one a bad reader indeed.” Agreed. In other words, it's Taylor who's the lazy reader here. ________________________________________________ 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
