I understand, though, that the CIA was big on Gramsci during the Contra "low intensity conflict".
On 8/28/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>There is a considerable overlap among the theoretical texts considered >essential by military academies and architectural schools. Indeed, the >reading lists of contemporary military institutions include works from >around 1968 (with a special emphasis on the writings of Gilles Deleuze, >Félix Guattari and Guy Debord), as well as more contemporary writings on >urbanism, psychology, cybernetics, post-colonial and post-Structuralist >theory. If, as some writers claim, the space for criticality has withered >away in late 20th-century capitalist culture, it seems now to have found a >place to flourish in the military. No wonder they couldn't defeat Hezbollah.
-- Sandwichman
