Re: Is this the new left?

There is no “it” that is postmodernism. THere’s a lot of variety
under that single name. - Doug

On Jul 21, 2006, at 6:03 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

True, because it’s so over. But Berube was once a devotee. (Some
years ago I listened to his ardent defense of Pomo in a debate with
Alan Sokal.) Its political stance was a cloudy mix of Democratic
party left-liberalism and I.P., the source of the most choleric
attacks on Chomsky’s anarchism since Vietnam days. –CGE

Doug Henwood wrote:

On Jul 21, 2006, at 5:06 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

Part of this comes from an etiolated survivor of the fake
radicalism of “Postmodernism.” Pissing on “postmodernism” is pretty lazy stuff. Doug


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