In "The Long Detour," Weinstein argues that the time has come for the left to renew a few of its utopian affiliations.
I don't agree. I have no idea how this infatuation with utopian dreaming became so popular. Russell Jacoby writes a book titled "End of Utopia" (favoring its return) but takes time to rake Chomsky over the coals for all the usual false charges (Pol Pot, etc.) Meanwhile, Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch call for a socialist utopianism in the 2000 Socialist Register, while not finding anything worth publishing about Cuba in the past 20 years. Except for one article by somebody who signed Joanne Landy's petition.
Utopia, ptooey!!!
Louis Proyect, Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
