Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 12:03:30 -0700
Sender: pen-l@ecst.csuchico.edu
From: Nathan Newman <newman@garnet.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: PoMo in the 90'ies
 
On Thu, May 5  1994, Pete Bratsis wrote:
 
> For all the bashing and assertions of nihlism, 'postmodern social theory'
> has not resulted in one gulag, in one vanguardist party, etc. So,
> those who hold a 'post-modernist'/boutgeois false consciousness
> may indeed be less of a threat to workers than the 'real' revolutionaries.
 
It also hasn't led to one union, one community-organization fighting for
basic social services or any mobilization to stop a war.
 
It is exactly the sanctimonious "my hands are clean" reactionary
passivity that makes postmodern theory so reprehensible.
 
--Nathan Newman