On 7/27/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Libido is essential, not optional, in politics. What turns them on?
You have to have a feel for that. Otherwise, you don't get it, even
if you have all the facts at your disposal.
Fantasy, too, is indispensable. To be sure, it's been either maligned
or neglected by many in the Marxist tradition, but there have been
socialists who recognized its role:
Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Eduardo Galeano, Jean Genet, José Carlos
Mariátegui, Oscar Wilde, etc.
Notice that none except Wilde (who was Irish) comes from the
English-speaking countries. No wonder the Anglo-American Marxists
have been the weakest link. You look at Marxists in the USA, the UK,
Canada, and Australia, and you realize . . . there is no sex appeal
here!
didn't William Morris value libido?
hopefully, libido will be moderated by ego and super-ego, just as
libido moderates them. Hey, maybe we can attain equilibrium!
--
Jim Devine / "An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and
a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and
tortures the living." -- Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
