Wow, Radical History Review allowed a Pinochet supporter be their
webmaster?!
http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/rhr.htm
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:YgZV_fFFqcE:chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/rhr.htm+An
dy+Daitsman+&hl=en
http://www.google.com/search?q=Andy+Daitsman+&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&start=10&sa
=N
Jeesh...
Michael Pugliese
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 6:07 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:12323] Re: Re: the mita
> Steve wrote:
> >I'm afraid I never made the connection between Brenner and Warren. Must
be
> >something like the connection between Zeitlin and Pinochet.
>
> There is no connection between Zeitlin and Pinochet. I have no idea how
you
> interpret things this way. All I said is that a professor in Chile named
> Andy Daitsman defended Pinochet's "revolution" using healthy swags of
> Zeitlin. Whatever Zeitlin thinks about Pinochet is an entirely different
> matter. My concern is how certain kinds of "orthodox Marxism" represented
> by Brenner, Laclau et al feed conservative trends in the academy. As Jaime
> Torras argues in the Fall 1980 Review of the Braudel Center, the Spanish
> academy utilized the Brenner thesis to institute a kind of neo-Kautskyism
> as official dogma. The reaction against the MR school was part of a
> conservatizing trend in academic Marxism. It was a way for academics to
> distance themselves from third world revolutions while clutching a cleaned
> up version of V. 1 of Capital to their breast. When you want to crawl your
> way to the top of the academy, there is a distinct disadvantage in
> identifying with third world revolutions. People will not only laugh at
> you, they might not give you tenure.
>
>
> Louis Proyect
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