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Article: Why Marxism isn't the activist's answer.
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- Monthly Review
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- December 1, 1987
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WHY MARXISM ISN'T THE ACTIVIST'S ANSWER1
1. Crisis of Focus
In "Why the Anti-Marxists are Wrong" (MR, March) Milton Fisk argues that the economy helps define responses to racism, sexism, and authoritarianism and--without ever telling us who they might be or letting them speak for themselves--claims that analysts who deny this will misunderstand contemporary struggle.
Indeed, race, sex, and authority relations do differ depending upon economic influences. But doesn't a capitalist economy in turn also differ depending upon whether the surrounding culture is nonracist or apartheid? And don't race and economic relations differ depending on ...
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