Re: Hardt on Charlie Rose

At 09:33 AM 7/26/01 -0500, Elson Boles wrote:
>I just slightly disagree with Steve about the list.  It is not so much that
>it regularly suffers from nonsensical jargon, and myopia as well, but that
>certain contributors do.  In the course of the dialogue we have discovered
>that Hardt and Negri are judged not to be good Marxists and have not said
>and done what Marx allegedly would have said and done.  Well good for them;
>for it is also clear that such criticisms of Hardt and Negri are dogmatic,
>and that brings us back to Boris' criticism of Proyect of 7-8-01.  In
>contrast, the discussion between Steve and Boris is usually quite
>interesting.  I hope it continues.

I agree with Elson Boles. The world systems network should allow all sorts
of conversations to go on simultaneously. It should not prevent academics
from speculating about the next thousand year cycle in world history, nor
should it prevent Marxists from debunking charlatans.

Louis Proyect
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