[Marxism] Left Forum 2008

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Time constraints prevented me from attending today's sessions of the 
Left Forum in New York, but I do want report back on what I saw 
yesterday. As a point of introduction, the Left Forum used to be 
called the Socialist Scholars Conference but was renamed as a 
consequence of a power struggle within the organizing committee. 
Rightwing social democrats sought to purge the conference of its more 
radical members including the conference organizer Eric Canepa who 
they viewed as insufficiently Serbophobic. You can read more about this here.

On Saturday morning I went to a panel on "Understanding Turkey Today: 
Class Dynamics, State Restructuring and Political Alternatives". A 
paper was read by its three co-authors who were college professors 
from Turkey (Fuat Ercan, Marmara University; Selime Guzelsari, Abant 
Izzet Baysal University; Sebnem Oguz, Trent University in Canada) and 
judging by their youthful appearance, part of a new generation of 
Turkish Marxism.

full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/left-forum-2008/


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