Greetings Economists,
Awhile back you were saying Post Modernism isn't so bad.
I don't see this exploration of Yoshie's as a waste. In that way I'd
like you to ignore Yoshie. I like a lot of your work. I don't like it
when you get worked up about some body as if your emotional perspective
summarized a Marxist reality. You have a degree of a problem just
letting go when people ask you to ignore things. Can you do that now?
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
On Aug 19, 2006, at 4:48 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
Yoshie wrote:
Like Shi'ism, Marxism, too, is "a religion of protest. It can only
speak truth to power and destabilize it. It can never be 'in power.'
As soon as it is 'in power' it contradicts itself" (Dabashi, p. 91).
The career of Marxism as the official philosophy of socialist states
has been, if anything, sadder than that of Shi'ism as the official
philosophy of a theocratic state. Communism, when it becomes the
opium for the people administered by a state, tends to narcotize and
depoliticize them more than any religion can.
It seems that Yoshie is racing 90 miles an hour down the road away from
Marxism. I wonder whether she will end up in the postmodernist camp or
simply convert to Islam the way in which Kent State professor Julio
Pino
did. Pino was on Marxmail for about a year preaching the superiority of
Islam to Marxism until he followed his own ineluctable logic and
became an
intellectual jihadist. What a waste of humanity.
