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On 13/11/2011 22:49, Shane Mage wrote:
And for the rest of his life never any self-criticism, any
understanding of what in him made him the willing enabler of such a
series of monstrous crimes.
Your shrill anathemas would be more compelling if Althusser had done
anything to 'enable' such crimes as the gulags and the suppression
of the Hungarian revolution. Althusser may be criticised, justly,
for having accepted the discipline of the PCF rather than join
others in attempting to found an alternative. To blame him for the
victims of Stalinism, which he lamented, is absurd.
Sure. And Heidegger may be criticized for accepting the discipline of
the NSDAP but to ask him to accept responsibility for the holocaust,
which he lamented, is...? To accept the discipline of a party engaged
as accomplice in the crimes of Stalinism or Nazism is to be an enabler
of those crimes.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos
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