against 'entrenched identities' or" Identity Cleansing

[bautiste at uswest.net]

Thanks Carrol for the (?) compliment. If I have read The Gotha, I don't
remember much of it. Of couse, much of what I did read of Marx/Engels is a
blur anyway.

I was speaking from a Pragmatic persepctive in taking exception with Yoshie's
formulations about identity. I think there are obvious difficulties at the
biological level with what she says, not to mention the logical level.
Logically, I am not sure you can distinguish one thing from another if there
were NO differences.

I also have very serious difficulties with the metaphysical desire to
eradicate human difference, the Other, by levelling all in a desire to create
oneness or unity. My Levinasian proclivities find such endeavors extremely
dangerous in their implications for dealing with multiculturalism.

chuck miller

Carrol Cox wrote:


> Chuck Miller writes:
>
> <<Also, it seems to me that sameness of this kind is logically impossible.
> People will always be different, whether in hair color, personality, voice
> tone or some such difference.>>
>
> At least one person has read *Critique of the Gotha Programme*, but you
> ought to give credit to the Old Man when you borrow his ideas.
>
> Carrol