>Friends, > >I seem to recall that Doug was highly critical of Burbach. They had an >exchange in teh URPE Newsletter awhile back. > >michael yates Burbach and Kargalitsky's book "Globalization and Its Discontents: The Rise of Postmodern Socialisms" is very much in line with books by William Greider and Richard Barnet that view the spread of multinational corporations as an unmitigated evil, particularly in the maquiladora zone. Doug's post-Marxism is very much his own creation, unlike any other I've seen. It includes a "nuanced" approach to maquilas, Indian reservation gambling casinos, and Kennewick man "research" that set him apart from the garden variety pomo. For example, while he is enthusiastic about Wahneema Lubiano's postmodernist take on black identity, he would blanch at her Vandana Shiva-esque statement that "Western ration<->ality's hegemony marginalizes other ways of knowing about the world." As I have already pointed out, this is very much in line with Doug's highly original intervention into the "science wars." He shares Sokal's hostility to "local knowledge" while at the same time embracing the trendy French thinkers Sokal sends up. I, on the other hand, think that the scientists digging up Indian skeletons should go to hell, while people like Lacan should spend some time in purgatory. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
