Re: On Academe and the list was Re: NACLA and Colombia

["Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <Gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

En relación a Re: On Academe and the list was Re: NACLA and Col,
el 17 Dec 00, a las 1:37, Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx dijo:

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> Lou Paulsen wrote:
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> > > But for the majority, the motto is:
> > >"Previously philosophers have described the world; >the thing, however, is 
> > >to
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> > >describe it using Marxist concepts."
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> > >L. Paulsen
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> Hi Lou! This is really an interesting observation.

I agree. The phrase sums up tons of bullshit that passes for "progressivism".

And I cellebrate Xxxx's comments that follow, on the article in ISQ and on
Zizek. My only caveat is that, sadly enough (because it betrays my age) this
that is currently astonishing Xxxx is a very very very old red herring in Latin
America, where the Left (and particularly the "academic" Left) has more often
than not been playing on the team of the oppressors against the oppressed.

In Spanish we spoke of the "marxistas de cátedra" to refer to those early
offshots of Marxism that flourished under Tsarist protection in the Russian
universities against populists. Carlos Rebello has translated this conception
to this kind of Latin American "Marxists".  This has been one of his most
noteworthy propositions, IMHO.


Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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