why I feel uncomfortable with discussions of "classism" as another "-ism"; it's the absence of any consideration of Marxist theory with regard to class discourse.
Yes, that's it exactly! For me, to draw a really clumsy analogy, thinking class without Marxist analysis is like thinking gender without feminism -- possible, but missing out on what for me is kind of the point.
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Date: 2008-02-27 04:07 pm (UTC)Yes, that's it exactly! For me, to draw a really clumsy analogy, thinking class without Marxist analysis is like thinking gender without feminism -- possible, but missing out on what for me is kind of the point.