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From owner-marxism-international Thu Apr 17 01:24:13 1997
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From: dr.bedggood@auckland.ac.nz
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 17:25:52 +0000
Subject: M-I: PANIC LEFTIST: FRAME NINE
> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 18:23:03 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Amrohini J. Sahay" <ajsahay@mailbox.syr.edu>
> To: marxism-international@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject: M-I: PANIC LEFTIST: FRAME NINE
> Reply-to: marxism-international@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
>
>
> Amrohini wrote:
[snip]
>
> The serious critique cannot begin by trying to marginalize us
> (Pearson's continuing to piss on us, calls us BOYZ...) but to engage us in
> serious discussions. Why not begin with the practices of the net-left?
> Why not begin with "performance" theory as a theory of the social and see
> how in the light of these advanced theories what Louis Proyect is saying
> about "race" and "history" are basically anecdotes that have no ability to
> explain race now,... why not? Why not take the situation in Zaire not as
> an occasion for yet another series of journalistic commentary but for a
> materialist analysis of colonialism now? You want to talk about "recent"
> theory begin with Butler and "performance"... begin with the postcolonial
> performance/the performance of the postcolonial...
>
>
I have suggested a couple of days ago that your collective contributes to the
discussion on Zaire on this list. Why not say what your materialist analysis of
colonialism is, now? Several of us have already written a number of
posts on this subject, not all of which is journalistic commentary,
and which tries to put forward revolutionary theory and practice
combined in a revolutionary programme, requiring of course the
formation of a revolutionary leadership.
Dave.
[For Permanent Revolution and on this list]
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Dave Bedggood
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