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I'd hardly say that "none" of them are advocating dictatorship
Larry J — (archived)

Ever hear of Angela Davis? She's a Marxist. We could quibble about Marxism and dictatorship, but in the end, I'd have to ask you to name a single country that tried to implement Marxism that didn't end up as a dictatorship.

There's also Colorado's latest embarassment, Ward Churchill. He equated the people working in the World Trade Center on 9-11 as "Little Eichmanns" because they were capitalists, therefore they had to be equated with Nazis and obviously deserved being murdered.

Noam Chomsky says he is not a Marxist (he says he was attracted to anarchism).

These are just a few examples that have been publicised. It's interesting to see who is praising publications like this. Or an English professor whose online bio reads, My work is generally marxist, and I think marxist theory and political practice are more relevant now than ever, given the global dominance of the capitalist mode of production and American imperialism. During the last decade or so, I've moved from a new historicist approach based in post-structuralist theory to a marxist history-from-below approach based in the British marxist historians, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ernst Bloch, among others. This approach argues that theoretical consciousness is by no means the monopoly of professors, but is to be found at work in human activity as such, even (or especially) among exploited workers. I'm most interested in the writing and social practice of the laboring classes, with emphasis on the early modern Atlantic world, but not to the exclusion of more familiar sorts of literature. I think ruling-class writers are a lot more interesting when you read them alongside the workers and working-class writers who worried them to death. Or the publications ofthis professor.

This is just the result of a few minutes on Google. It didn't even get to the second page.

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