Re: [CrashList] Why better education needn't mean more militancy

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

CB: This is a pretty nice group of thoughtlets, Rob. I almost don't want to clip it.


Rob S.: A couple of thoughtlets - certainly not wholly satisfactory responses, but
contributory factors at least:  

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CB: I really like this one:

Rob S.: [8] a confused, demoralised,
pretentious, poncy, opaque and  abstruse left, which rabbits on in journals
rather than pubs, about 'differance', 'the phallus', and 'the subject' more
than it does about people, death, despoliation and exploitation - oh, and
hope.

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CB: I would add to the following:

Rob S. :"6] not a word of Marxian critique (or any other radical
critique beyond fragmentary feminisms) has inhabited high-school courses for
a generation, so it's off the cultural agenda;"


CB: Not just absence of Marxian critique, but explicit, intensive and extensive anti-Marxist , anti-communist propaganda among workers throughout the history of the Soviet Union, etc.,  identification of anti-Marxism with patriotism ( to the point of identifying Marxism with treason ) and democracy.

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