Alice down under in Wonder

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca
Mon Oct 11 07:34:46 PDT 1999


On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 10:37:07 -0500 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> Wow! But I gather you do not accept the (marxian but not only
> marxian) premise of "Im Anfang war die That" (Goethe, *Faust*)
> -- in the beginning was the deed.

Deeds? The effect always outdoes the cause, because there is a surplus - otherwise overturning capitalism would be structurally impossible. And the excess is nothing else other than the "obscene object of enjoyment."


> (Incidentally, I believe in racisms, not racism...

Can racism, as a term, be used in the plural without an s? Religion is used like this all the time... "Centre for the Study of Religion" (although some pranksters once painted on an s once).


> Ideologies are *not* changed by changing language or thought
> (though the battle to do so is an element in the overall battle)
> but by changing the realities which generate the ideology.

Changing the way with think changes our reality. If you think the earth is flat, or you think that there is a chair in the room, you will act as though the earth is flat, or the chair in the room (I could use religious examples... saints and martyrs...).

ken



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