Comments on: The masculinity of Marxist theory https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2017/03/28/the-masculinity-of-marxist-theory/ critical anthropology of academic culture Wed, 08 Nov 2017 19:40:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.1 By: eli https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2017/03/28/the-masculinity-of-marxist-theory/#comment-12003 Thu, 06 Apr 2017 02:09:38 +0000 https://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=2343#comment-12003 In reply to Victor.

Come to think of it, I didn’t know anything about the history of the NYRB, so those testimonials were quite informative. Thanks, Victor. And Sivers sounds a bit like I.F. Stone — workaholic, immersed in language, intellectually omnivorous.

I think this piece would have been intellectually better if it hadn’t been written by someone so committed to consensus liberalism. But I fear that the unstated masculinism may well also have cropped up even in a piece written by a better-informed (male) Marxist…

]]> By: Victor https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2017/03/28/the-masculinity-of-marxist-theory/#comment-12002 Wed, 05 Apr 2017 23:27:19 +0000 https://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=2343#comment-12002 From https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-robert-silvers: “when given a work about Marxism, [Bob Silvers] paged through, exclaimed ‘All the old arguments!’ and then threw it in the outbox.” Maybe this explains why that assignment would have gone to someone like Freeman, and why Freeman’s lame piece would have seemed to pass muster.

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