The coming Glorious Revolution

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Brad Mayer wrote:
>
>>A bit dated by a few years, but still sounding fresh.  Especially 
>>refreshing is its clear, public voice, free of the annoying 
>>encumbrances of postmodern/poststructuralist discourse.  I am 
>>especially in accord with the historical sequence:  the Russian 
>>Revolution was our Cromwellian Puritan Revolution, the next 
>>revolutionary wave will bring us our own Glorious Revolution, when 
>>at last the way forward for post-capitalist development will be 
>>decisively opened up on the world scale, once and for all, forever.
>>
>>But first to sweep some cold war liberal rubbish out of the way...
>
>Right. And if it weren't for Jacques Derrida, the revolutionary 
>moment would already have arrived!
>
>Doug

Derrida probably wouldn't be annoyed by the negative reference to 
postmodern/poststructuralist discourse, in that he doesn't claim to 
be a postmodernist/poststructuralist.  In fact, most pomo celebrities 
profess they are *not* pomo, probably because it's uncool to be pomo. 
Postmodernism/poststructuralism may die as an intellectual fashion & 
school of thought (if not as a structure of feeling in late 
capitalism) due to the dearth of people who unabashedly say they 
believe in postmodernism/poststructuralism.  No postmodernist = no 
postmodernism.  :-)

Yoshie