this due seems to be a tenured english (no less) college professor at U Ill who was raised in upper west side manhattan, went to the ivies and so on, and makes 250g a year. unless he gives it up, he should just shut up. while there is something to be said that having henry gates at harvard is not a solution to class (or actually, diversity) problems, sometimes its seems one has these white, superpriviledged, lazy, generic p[rofessors covering the fact that they are taking up space and resources and don't want 'diversity' to be used to justify why they shouldn't be there---its class!!!. of course, since that is an even harder problem to deal with (ie michaels won't give up his 250g/yr) nothing will be done. his very unique, profound, deeply moving solution is the 'guaranteed annual income'. now, that is an idea. maybe he can write thomas paine ab out it and even get a Noble Pirze in econ for this idea. (Maybe he can get 2, for say, coming up with the idea of recycling or growing your own food.) he is a jeffrersonian democrat----slavery is an abomination, do away with it---but not today because it would inconveniance with me. class priviedge is turrible, so let them eat cake using a guaranteed annual income---how bout in 50 years, will that be enough, said? www.axiomsandchoices.blogspot.com --- On Fri, 9/4/09, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Louis Proyect <[email protected]> Subject: [Pen-l] A critique of Walter Benn Michaels To: "PEN-L list" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 2:28 PM Yesterday somebody posted a query on my blog: I’m wondering if you’ve read Walter Benn Michaels’s recent article on race and class in the LRB? Here it is: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n16/mich02_.html. I’d love to read your take on it, and I’m sure that other loyal readers would as well! In answering this, I should mention first of all that the always brilliant Richard Seymour of Lenin’s Tomb fame has taken up Michaels’s article. I should also mention that Michaels has written another provocative article on race, gender and class in the New Left Review. Titled “Against Diversity”, the NLR article can best be summarized as an old-fashioned defense of class trumping race and gender. Although this has associations with the kind of dogmatic Marxism that allowed the CPUSA to stigmatize Malcolm X as a Black fascist and attack the Equal Rights Amendment, it is really a widespread tendency and has a long history as we shall see. For example, shock jock Don Imus could be heard in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina explaining the neglect of Black New Orleans residents as a “class” issue rather one of “race”. I don’t believe that NLR invited Don Imus to write something on these questions, however. read full article: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/a-critique-of-walter-benn-michaels/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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