The article, if I’m being honest, feels like it’s trying to do way too much at once. It’s trying to make a salient point about the western left (which I think it does), but the criticism of the PSL is strange. I understand and agree with you there.
I remember reading it and thinking that was the strangest part of the article.
It’s an easy trap to fall into because, as Marxists, a lot of the stuff we analyze is either holistic in the first place or had very wide ranging applications.
The article, if I’m being honest, feels like it’s trying to do way too much at once. It’s trying to make a salient point about the western left (which I think it does), but the criticism of the PSL is strange. I understand and agree with you there.
I remember reading it and thinking that was the strangest part of the article.
That’s a great way of putting it. Trying to do too much at once.
It’s an easy trap to fall into because, as Marxists, a lot of the stuff we analyze is either holistic in the first place or had very wide ranging applications.