> I have done my share of book worming in the texts of Hegel. I will be damned,
> however, if I can make any real world, political sense out of what it means
> to transcend, but not eliminate, mediated social organizations and
> institutions such as those found in representative democracy.
It means you push them in a progressive direction -- things like, you know, AFT, which was never hot to trot about organizing grads, for example. That changed when grads began organizing themselves, got involved with AFT and changed the center of political gravity. Someone has to mediate the mediations.
-- Dennis