> Date sent: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 14:29:36 -0500
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> From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: dialectics, etc.
> Ricardo Duchesne:
> >
> >These are just two sides of the same coin: if is is an "inner essence
> >we could never name", liberating it means producing a whole new
> >subject. And "the production of subjects" is nothing new; it was
> >tried, with very grievous consequences, by the Soviets. Che's "New
> >Man" was a similar attempt. A more extreme example is Pol
> >Pot's experiment, which should
> >end all such talk about "producing" humans, "total innovations".
> >
>
> I have sort of gotten used to deleting both Shawgi Tell and Duchesne's
> posts unread, since they are both so predictable. But since today is a slow
> day at work--near the holidays--I thought I'd see what's goin' on.
>
> I can't believe that somebody would try to write about Cuba and Cambodia in
> the same sentence in this way. This is reductionism to the nth degree.
>
> Could you imagine somebody who was an "expert" in the history of bourgeois
> revolutions writing in the same way?
>
> "There was a bloody revolt against the British aristocracy led by Oliver
> Cromwell. The results, as everybody knows, were disastrous. Next came the
> French Revolution which showed how innocent people can die when
> "enlightment" philosophy gets out of hand. Haiti too. Did I mention Italy?
> Garibaldi was totally intolerant, as was Bolivar in Latin America. How can
> anybody challenge the notion that philosophical rationalism leads to
> genocide and car commercials 16 times per hour during football games."
>
> Louis Proyect
Yes, tell me about it.
>
