From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
I don't understand why we are personalizing Marc Cooper. The real issue is not personality/psychology but the wholesale defection of a broad swath of the radical movement into a kind of neo-social patriotism. There are two reasons for this. One, the section of the radical movement we are dealing with was never sufficiently rooted in a class analysis of society to begin with. Two, the "enemies" that they are so anxious to pillory lack any of the redeeming features of the liberation movements of the 1980s. ... Of course, part of the problem with these intellectuals is that they subconsciously (but not in a Freudian sense) understand how their bread gets buttered.
Yes, and what an incredibly toxic combination of influences this has proven to be.
Carl
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