Re: Welcoming Stan Goff Out of Marxism

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/3/06, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In terms of practical politics, assimilating an
> ecological or feminist or anti-racist critique, you
> have something that might be termed Modular Marxism.
> In a desparate attempt to prove how nice and open and
> non-dogmatic they are, Marxists are willing to accept
> all kinds of little modular adjustments to the basic
> Marxist unit, like slapping some extra RAM or a new
> video card on your PC.  The message to queer,
> environmental, feminist, and anti-fascist and
> anti-racist activists is: "hey, all you secondary
> contradictions, there's room for all your modular
> concerns here on the Marxist CPU."

It's also possible, though, for people who start out as feminists,
anti-racists, gay liberationists, environmentalists, anti-fascists,
and so on to eventually arrive at Marxism by coming up against and
thinking about class contradictions within feminist and other
movements as well as the limits capitalism puts on the extent of
social change that can be achieved by issues and identity movements.
So, I'd say that there has been and will be cross-fertilization
between Marxist standpoints and other standpoints, sometimes due to
people literally going back and forth between the two or more.
--
Yoshie
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