[PEN-L:2420] 1998 Bad Writing Contest winners

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Might not a critical synthesis
be had in part from a critical
struggle between the different
schools of thought and parties
of
action ?

Charles Brown

>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> 01/21 2:19 PM >>>
Jim Devine wrote:

>why this either/or? that is why is it _either_ Butler, Foucault, and PoMo
>in general _or_ "classical Marxism"?  Why do we dwell on the "useful
>contrast" rather than trying to build a critical synthesis?

It's not either/or in my book. I'm trying to think through a critical
synthesis. Unfortunately, there are all too many folks on both sides of the
virgule who'd rather snipe than talk.

Doug