ON "MARXIST" AESTHETICS & PUBLIC ENEMIES -- REJOINDER

[Ralph Dumain <rdumain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>While Dumain writes that the left has to be "against aesthetics"


I said the exact opposite.

>he proceeds to make several aesthetic judgements

Damn straight.  Making judgements is what it means to be human.

>more suited to the academicians he intends to attack than

They have no aesthetic, moral, or intellectual standards.  I do.
They worship power: a generation ago it was the classics, now it's
the mass media.  Same difference.

>to a true over-comming of aesthetic judgement.

The last thing I would do is overcome aesthetic judgment.  Thanks
for being an asshole and confirming precisely what I warned
against.

>Rap may be offensive to the ears of a John Coltrane Jazz fan, but
>it -does- contain a metric beat, a developed artistry, and
>at times a developed political stance (witness Public Enemy).

And didn't I say that this is precisely the kind of rationale I
oppose?  I don't care about political stance, least of all of
nationalist scum like Pubic Enemy.  As for artistry, how many of
these people can sing or play instruments?  I can go to the zoo
for that kind of artistry.

>If the left intends to make inroads with the next generation,

My judgement of their degenerate culture is not predicated on
making inroads.

>particularly those with the most to lose from the status quo, we
>must stamp out the tendency to reject the voices eminating from
>the angry because it does not suit our particular morality.

And who is "we"?  Easy thing to say from the confines of Purdue
University.  Do you have any black teenage males in your family
running the streets and getting into mischief?  If you don't, you
had better shut the fuck up.

>to use the phrase "come out of the trees"

I meant just what I said.

>Beasley scores quite strongly in suggesting that the lack of an
>aesthetics has limited Marxism _only because_ Dumain ....

Beastley said just the opposite.

>This requires that we extend our appeal in ways which resonate
>with their experience.

Whether or not I wish to resonate with their experience, which I
do not, has nothing to do with what is valuable or worthwhile.
You write like a pimp.  Furthermore, the obligation of older
people is not to pander to the young, ignorant, and lost, but to
bring these animals under some kind of discipline and respect for
their elders, whatever it takes.  You don't have any experience
raising black children, do you?  Mr. Purdue, it takes a tough man
to produce a tender chicken.

>Rap may sound like noise to you, but it carries the sound of a
>disarticulated revolutionary impulse to me.

Disarticulated indeed!  Probably because you are a Caucasian
academic jack-off artist writing from a safe distance.  It's scum
like you that makes me steer clear of academics and the American
left.


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