joanna bujes : >Yeah, I read the Wallerstein piece that was posted earlier today and I was > profoundly underwhelmed. It made me think that one cure for neo-marxism > would be some kind of grunt job for at least a year (in lieu of a > sabbatical). Beyond that, Hardt/Negri/Wallerstein/etc interest me only as > flavors of social/intellectual/ pathology; and right now, there are more > urgent tasks.....like organizing against any and all forms of US aggression.
That's right. The best way of helping other nations is to change one's own by understanding it. What the Left in Chile (for example) thinks about Mongolia (for example) is of no consequence. If a Chilean Marxist wants to specialise in the history and culture of Mongolia, he is welcome to do. But endless conjectures about distant nations by dilettantes don't help anyone. Ulhas
