Boggs Fall Conversation Series
The Boggs Center will be hosting a Fall Conversation Series. Those in or around the Detroit area should make every effort to check this out. Boggs is a revolutionary in the real sense of the word. For those (like me) unable to make it, check out some of her writings. Let me know what you think!
September 21st, 2006 at 5:33 pm
State Capitalism and World Revolution is by far one of her finest contributions to modern politics.
September 21st, 2006 at 7:01 pm
I reread CONVERSATIONS IN MAINE from time to time. Brilliant. I’ve been trying to come up with a label for her, but she really doesn’t fit them. Reminds me of the question your tag team partner asked about leftism–the difference between leftists looking for government to have a more central role, and those looking to get the state off our back. She’s definitely got an anarchist streak but there’s something else going on as well.
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Tag team partner, haha. I’ll have to tell him that. That’s great. I think she and the rest of the Johnson-Forest tendency of the Fourth International represented a strand of Marxist thought that was largely marginal, but certainly the most democratic and dialectical of all. The democratic currents and direct democracy politics are probably why a lot of Anarchists relate to her.