Re: A defense of NACLA

["Macdonald Stainsby" <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Rather than repeating the mantras of earlier days, the NACLA Report
> has developed a tradition of radical and committed scholarly research,
> presented in non-academic ways, of address to an actually-existing
> capitalism (globalised, neo-liberalised, networked, complex) and the
> actually-existing social movements in Latin America. It also makes room for
> dialogue.
>

This is how Post-modernists view themselves. They do this regularly: both 
castigating
Marxists for being irrelevant and posing themselves as an alternative at the 
same time.
If you don't weave beautifully poetic prose like this nonsense, you are treated 
like a
fossil. Well, in the fossils humans dig up is the key to our past, and a 
pointing
towards our future. It's really funny that calling the question (such as "who's 
side
are
you on?") is considered by some to be "an old mantra". I think of it as a 
principle.

These idiots have managed to make it so that there no longer is a Marxist class 
in our
universities. This is described as "opening up" academia in a very ironic twist.


Macdonald