Last exit fascism

[Paul Mackin]

This isn't really exactly what I had in mind in my "hopelessly
reactionary" figure but it may be a useful addition anyway. It's something
Habermas has  in his piece "Modernity versus Postmodernity" (1981)
(in a readings book). Habermas according to Jameson's
(3 dimensionl) classification of the various postmodernisms falls
into the promodernist/antipost-modernist politically progressive
contingent. (Thinks modernism ought to be hung in with a while
longer in other words) Anyway, focussing on the aesthetic aspects,
Habermas explicitely attaches the appellation "Young Conservatives" to
those  antimodernist/propostmodernist who have embraced the ideas of
poststructuralism. (there are also the old conservatives and the
neoconservatives in his schema)

Will keep looking for the Jameson and Eagleton discussions. Something more
in the directly political realm.


			P.