Tavis Barr wrote: >I'd believe it. I just think we're talking about different political >circles. You claim to have identified groups working on specific, local >issues. That may indeed be true, but I don't think that's what's wrong >with the above mentioned organizations. I think you've identified >groups that are building through staff instead of recruiting activists. >That's what we need to fight against. Tavis, I'm happy to believe you've found better people than I, but still, what are they doing together? We have a savage onslaught here in NYC, much of it of local or Albany origin, and there is next to no opposition. Judith Butler finally finished revising her plenary paper from our old friend, last December's Rethinking Marxism conference. She is concerned, after Sokal (whom she explicitly refuses to name; her only named opponent is Nancy Fraser) that calls for "unity" on the part of "neo-conservative Marxists" are an attempt to silenece the new social movements, unity always being bought at the price of marginalization, subordination, or excision. I'd be the last to deny that unity is often exactly that; I'm not dismissing Butler as some obscurantist professor of identity. But is that the only kind of unity there is? Isn't there a unity of solidarity as well as erasure? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>
