Re: Gelles/ EMU/Popularism

[Dennis R Redmond <dredmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 tmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>     John comes to the heart to the matter. In France, the extreme left
> (Pierre Bourdieu sells 300,000 of his short essays) and the extreme right
> have a common cause. They are opposed to Europe, to progressive ideas.
> What they want in common is chaos. The left. because it proves they were
> right; the right because they seek power.

Did Pierre really sell that many books? There's hope for European
civilization after all!

Incidentally, I find the thought that Bourdieu is some wild-eyed
Trotskyite to be hilarious. I mean, did you ever actually *read* any of
Bourdieu's works? He's a cultural theoretician and a sociologist,
and quite a profound one; he's one of the few intellectuals in France who
has publicly come out against neoliberalism, supported the December 1995
strikers, and consistently worked to build a multi-cultural, tolerant,
pro-immigrant and worker-friendly France. He's by no means some stooge of
the ossified PCF, which he's been very critical of, actually. I like to
think of him as the premier intellectual of the European Greens.

-- Dennis