[PEN-L:11664] Role of Total Foreign Trade

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wojtek:
>Lou, this is not computer business - newer is not necessariy better - the
>fact that someone came up with a new intellectual commodity (interpretation
>of facts) does not mean it is any better than the "1980 stuff."  Not
>everyone on this list is an economic historian cum cultural anthropologist
>(I am ceratinly not) - so it would be useful to briefly state how the new
>research is relevant to the argument at hand, instead of giving obscure
>references.  I'm trying to do that in my postings.

Ha-ha. You are doing nothing like that in your postings. You are riffing
off the top of your head. Here, let me show you how it is done:

"The primary contradiction between a third worldist perspective and a more
class oriented Marxism rests in its embrace of the notion that labor
productivity is the driving force behind all progress. Clearly (its
important to throw in words like 'clearly' when you are bullshitting) the
problematic of third world underdevelopment has to be seen in the context
of elite rejection of modernist paradigms. Romanticising Quadaffi is
symptomatic of this as well as the "sandalistas" who used to visit
Nicaragua. A more hard-nosed Marxism grounded in the Grundrisse would
certainly have to prioritize more working class type campaigns such as the
one that took place in Baltimore recently when a Democrat stood up to all
the "third worldist" black candidates and promised that all the Quadaffi
worshipping hip-hop B-boys would be brought under the kind of discipline
that we had back in Poland where men were men and no kidding around was
allowed. No siree, bob."



Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)