Mono-Causal Explanations (was Re: Accused Killer of 3 Is LinkedtoRacist Writing (fwd))

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Mar 6 08:54:20 PST 2000


Carrol Cox wrote:


>I suppose
>capitalism has something to do with the content of a manic-depressive's
>illness. For example, someone with that illness is more apt to go out
>and run up credit card debt on new clothes and household appliances
>than on an attempt to bribe the King to ennoble him.

So you are accepting diagnostic catgegories, that generalize about "mental illness." I thought you didn't go for that sort of thing. Or are you using the category under erasure, in some covert Derridean move?

Doug



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