Starting at around 9:30 my riff on Marxist thinkers who aren't included in the annotated collection should have included John Bellamy Foster, Carl Boggs, and Bob Avakian, who has been talking and writing about creeping Amerikan Republi-fascism since the 1990s.
My essay on the Marantz review and the Steinmetz-Jenkins book tomorrow will go into much greater detail. I am trying to edit out some of the contempt one can pick up here. Not having much luck.
How about borrowing from Luis Bunuel, “The Exterminating Angle”. Is that what you mean when you suggest the fitting analogy of the dinner party where no food is served? Bravo! for breaking the idiocy in two.
Your post prompted me to read the New Yorker article by Marantz. I wonder where his reluctance to admit that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck, comes from. I don't understand what he's afraid will happen if everyone were to agree that Trump is a fascist. He says, "I worry that the epithet, as used, obscures more than it illuminates." What the hell does that mean? What does he think is being obscured?
Starting at around 9:30 my riff on Marxist thinkers who aren't included in the annotated collection should have included John Bellamy Foster, Carl Boggs, and Bob Avakian, who has been talking and writing about creeping Amerikan Republi-fascism since the 1990s.
With around 9:52 left I said Japan where I meant to say Germany.
My essay on the Marantz review and the Steinmetz-Jenkins book tomorrow will go into much greater detail. I am trying to edit out some of the contempt one can pick up here. Not having much luck.
Apt title for this episode.
How about borrowing from Luis Bunuel, “The Exterminating Angle”. Is that what you mean when you suggest the fitting analogy of the dinner party where no food is served? Bravo! for breaking the idiocy in two.
Your post prompted me to read the New Yorker article by Marantz. I wonder where his reluctance to admit that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck, comes from. I don't understand what he's afraid will happen if everyone were to agree that Trump is a fascist. He says, "I worry that the epithet, as used, obscures more than it illuminates." What the hell does that mean? What does he think is being obscured?