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walter benn michaels: partial transcript of interview on Behind the News with Doug Henwood

By shag carpet bomb • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: Culture Wars, Identity Politics, Liberalism, Politics, Racialization, Theory, Trouble with Diversity

and no, the point isn’t to ransack his text for incriminating evidence. the point is to explicate the entire damn argument, instead of extracting out of it the one thing you agree with and discarding the rest as if there is no fucking connection between the two!
i don’t think you rescue ideas from a […]



self clarification of the struggles and wishes of the age

By shag carpet bomb • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Category: Democrats, Liberalism, Marxist Theory, Politics

with apologies to Eric for being totally Hegelian in this :)
At LBO, Michael Pollak wrote:
True, and that was a great editorial to post. But I think both of you are missing a key linguistic and conceptual asymmetry here between right and left, which the left has no interest in curing, but which if we […]



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