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About this blog etc. – Part II

09Dec07

I was turned on to the term Red Rhetoric by a book written by my doctoral dissertation adviser on the “unsleepingly rhetorical” (inspired by Kenneth Burke’s of characterization of Marxism) nature of Marxist rhetoric. More than Lukacs’ essay “Towards a Methodology of the Problem of Organization,” this book made the case for examining the [...]

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About this blog etc.

07Dec07

This blog has been set up to help me write my dissertation. So, what is my dissertation about? See, if I didn’t have such a hard time explaining it I would be writing it instead of this blog but hopefully writing about it here in a messy way will help to clear my head. [...]

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This is a blog that discusses the modes, modalities, and dispositions of contentious politics. It was initially set up to help me write my dissertation in which I grapple with the problems of organizing a movement but has grown since. I chose to call it Red Rhetoric for two reasons. One, because the organization that I am writing about is one of the largest mass organizations of the CPI (M). Two, because Marxist scholarship has dealt with the problem of organizing like no other. See also About this blog.
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About this blog etc. – Part II

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