This is probably a very valid point. There should no question that the immigrant rights movements and organizing among other marginalized groups should be a primary focus for Marxists right now.
I despise when people dismiss the White working class as hopelessly reactionary, but there is no doubt in my mind that the embryo of a mass movement would have to start in more fertile territory. As far as provocation goes if part of his essay challenged leftists who have been seeing Obama, Hillary and Condi as mostly beneficiaries of the upheavals of the New Left and the post-political left, instead of neoliberalism ethos. I think this is fundamentally correct. I was unaware of his stance on diversity in universities. It sounds arcane and reactionary. On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > > Basically he is an intellectual provocateur like Stanley Fish, who > enjoys stirring things up. I should mention that Living Marxism, the > magazine put out by the Spiked Online people, had the *same* analysis as > him and enjoyed the static it generated on the left. Why people should > take characters like WBM and Frank Furedi seriously is beyond me since > they don't take their own selves very seriously. > > ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
