<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2448.0"> <TITLE>RE: Derrida down under</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> > The *first* task > of she/he who wishes to change the world is to understand it > accurately. The second task is to express that understanding in terms that are broadly accessible. >     When "the left" comes into existence again, it will of course > have to work out ways to speak (intelligibly) to larger and > larger sectors of that "general public," but in the meantime the > necessity is truth, not agitational effectiveness. This to me seems solipsistic, if not onanistic. Carl </BODY> </HTML>