Another reason to call this writer's comments stupid is because of his insistence on not using any words or terminology derived from what he calls "Marxist thought." I don't think this writer has an appreciation or understanding of how many social analysts and critical thinkers of the right and left, owe a debt of gratitude, regardless of whether they agree or disagree with Marx, to his critique of the role of labor, work and capital. Marx, whatever his analytical failures or personal shortcomings, is an essential part of the Western canon of philosophical and political economic thinking. One can vault over him, go around him or burrow underneath him but no one who is serious about understanding the modern world and how it came into existence can ignore Marx. Do these so-called conservatives truly believe that their thinking and the world it attempts to describe is called into being ab ovo? These folks, I suspect, are only serious in their nearly messianic zeal to rewrite and revise history. If left to their own devices they'll eventually have folks believing that Africans actually purchased tickets to make the Middle Passage. This may be a harsh judgment but it is no less delusional than the Democratic Leadership Council's belief that John Kerry could be elected president of the United States.

Posted by  PTCruiser on November 27, 2004 - 10:57am.

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