In [7l57] Riccardo wrote: > What's wrong in being "fundamentalist"? Fundamentalism and Orthodoxy are terms which have strong *religious* connotations. They are terms suggestive of an attitude towards a subject matter which is, IMO, deeply and profoundly anti-Marxist. Perhaps the terms were adopted (IMO, mistakenly) because they were first used in a dismissive way by critics and so rather than challenge the designations they simply adopted them? E.g. consider the origins of "Queer Theory". Who was the first self-described "Orthodox Marxist"? (Kautsky perhaps? ... by early XX Century, it was a commonly used self-designation for many Marxists). Who was the first "Marxist fundamentalist"? (origins in the early l970's or before?). In solidarity, Jerry
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