tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post2280394575160124284..comments2023-10-24T11:03:41.388-05:00Comments on ladypoverty: Marx and FoucaultJ.R. Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076895859826581960noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-67826669925479989742010-04-14T11:43:52.580-05:002010-04-14T11:43:52.580-05:00Yes, I think an intermission is in order somewhere...Yes, I think an intermission is in order somewhere around Chapter 10. <br /><br />I actually wanted to go back and start over again, because while the component parts are endlessly fascinating, my brain has yet to fit it all together as a working whole. In any event, it is not the kind of book you just riff on in blog posts, I am finding, at least not when you are in the middle of it all.<br /><br />Interesting point about cultural vs. economic Marxism. It seems to me the economic strain was predominant when state-socialism was still seen as a viable program, with the cultural trend becoming predominant ever since. <br /><br />The telling thing is how many "leftists" took the "cultural" route when the Soviet Union, et al, preferenced economics (I believe this was Gramsci's innovation), and how many others have stuck with an economic critique (Chomsky, e.g.) in our heyday of "cultural studies." You might count them on one hand!JRBhttp://ladypoverty.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-13591942341099784192010-04-13T08:16:38.985-05:002010-04-13T08:16:38.985-05:00Very interesting. (I haven't quite made it tha...Very interesting. (I haven't quite made it that far in my reading, having had to take a week off because of problems of lucidity.)<br /><br />My sense, more and more, is that too many of the nominally leftwing critics/writers are <i>not</i> sufficiently grounded in Marx. Or, more to the point, they've not grounded in <i>Capital</i>, though they've no doubt read the <i>Brumaire</i> and the <i>Manifesto</i>, things like that. In this way, I think, cultural Marxism became more dominant than a Marxian economic analysis, which it turns out is a good way to contribute to the neutering of the Left.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08014014605639738887noreply@blogger.com