Capital-R Romanticism (à la Rousseau, a critique of "modernism" by comparison to an idealized past) has always been present on the left. As with Rousseau, it's always just a step away from right-wing Romanticism.
------------------------ Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Henwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Profit making under capitalism > > > Julio Huato wrote: > > >For some reason, some leftists in the U.S. seem to believe > that anything > >said about the progressive features of capitalist production > amounts to > >bourgeois propaganda. > > One reason for that is that a lot of U.S. leftists proceed from a > moralizing, religious philosophy, and share a traditionalist > conservative's disdain for the hedonism and sacrilege capitalism > brings with it. They prefer the fixed, frozen relations to the > melting into air - the rooted and "local" to the cosmopolitan and > global, the austere and simple to the rich and complex. Marxists > aren't supposed to think that way, but I can name one or two who do, > even as they profess their ambitions to get back to a purer Marxism, > which seems to mean back to a prelapsarian innocence. > > Doug >
