Alterman and Rorty (was "Re: Some of what Alterman said)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Jim Heartfield wrote:
>Then it seem pretty clear to me anyway that Rorty is wholly in the
>right, and it is here that Derrida is muddying the waters. Political
>action is about decision, action and common goals - differance, as
>Derrida has often said is about a deferral of decision, and about
>rejecting common goals.

The problem is that Rorty wants us to contain the scope of 'decision,
action, and common goals' within his narrow nationalist and social
democratic agenda. And that's the reason why he gets along very well with
the well-paid bureaucrats of the AFL-CIO.

Yoshie