Butler's intro

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Sam Pawlett wrote:
>The difference is that in Freudian theory
>it is in the individual's own interest that he distort his thinking while in
>Marxism it is not.

In my view, the main difference is that in Lacanian-inflected
discourse-analyses  such as Butler's, the subject never gets it right--in
fact the subject is the farthest from truth when he thinks he got it
right--while Marxism says that we may (at least) grasp the truth of wage
labor.

Yoshie