From owner-marxism-international  Mon Apr 14 14:29:00 1997
Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970414190315.0068b560@mail.algonet.se>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 20:27:40 +0200
From: Robert Malecki <malecki@algonet.se>
Subject: Re: Postmodern Performance (Re: M-I: PANIC LEFTIST: FRAME FIVE)

At 10:52 1997-04-14 -0500, you wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>>like all bourgeois
>>ethicists, Y, manages to shift the theoretical and political focus from
>>"production" (of surplus value) to its "distribution" and thus place the
>>"graduate student" and not the "capitalist" at the center of the political
>>economy.  This is, of course, an invaluable service to the owners.
>
>Have you ever heard of the term "projection"? What you accuse me--and other
>people of various marxist tendencies--of doing is exactly what you have
>been doing all along. None of your posts has ever placed political focus on
>production of surplus value. Further, your posts have placed graduate
>student experience and an academic conference flyer--instead of capital--at
>the center of your critical attention. (The most recent fetish of yours is
>what you call "netleft.") In other words, you have yet to engage anything
>beyond "experience," "text," and a sphere of "distribution" of ideas. Very
>Postmodernist Performance.
>
>In more recent posts, the most prominent rhetorical opposition that you
>guys want to set up seems to be that between "intellectuals" (those who
>read and write "Theory" in a way that badly imitates a certain academic
>style) and "philistine anti-intellectuals." The addition of the word
>"philistine" is revealing; you guys want your "Theory" to be classy. (It's
>pathetic to see that your posts haven't lived up to your desire.)
>
>Yoshie
>
Ahh Yoshie has got the number on the Buffalo "Marxists"! Basically she is
saying exactly the same thing I said in an earlier letter today. However in
a much more eloquent way.

Bob Malecki

PS Interesting that Louis and Doug don't agree on the "black" question. 
I tend to agree with Doug on this. However I was wondering if Doug's line
of intergration (I perfer revolutionary integration) is based on liberal
fear of a civil war along color lines in the states. I know why Proyect is
doing his number. He is looking for and outfit that has a little militant
retoric to support. Even if it means dropping any kind of paying lipservice
to a proletarian revolutuonary integrationist line. 

Warm Regards
Bob Malecki


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