Last exit fascism

[Dave Monroe]

Fair enough, but I'm sure you can understand why I felt obliged to call you on it.
Specifics would be greatly appreciated, esp. as I haven't kept up on the recent Terry
Eagleton and, as I recall, Perry Anderson and Alex Callinicos books in re: postmodernism
and marxism.  Last thing I saw of Jameson's was his Brecht book, so ... Hell, I haven't
even gotten to Derrida's Specters of Marx, for that matter.  But politics 'n'
deconstruction IS an interest of mine, so ... but just about outta here for the day,
though, and I do want to get in a quick, preliminary response elsehwere here, so ...

Paul Mackin wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Dave Monroe wrote:
>
> > ... well, now, that's a bit different from claiming that "deconstructors" (who they?)
> > "are hopeless reactionaries," isn't it?
>
> Hopeless reactionaries was rhetorical. There are of course progressive
> elements in poststructuralism but I wanted to emphasize the problems
> and so resorted to a bit of hyperbole.
>
> I'll try to think up some more on this and cite a specific examples of the
> discussion that's gone on over how Marxists or Marxians might respond to
> postmodernism or Late Capitalism. These tend to be enormously involved,
> convoluted and drawn out. Nothing ever gets settled and no one expects
> it. That's the hell of postmodernism. But maybe I can find something short
> and pithy (not likely) to augment my earlier post. But anyway thanks for
> taking an interest.
>
>                                 P.