Gramsci & Machiavelli (was Re: Ethical foundations of the left)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>We can't even make the rulers behave differently, not to mention 
>>overthrow them, by urging them to read Habermas & reminding them of 
>>the virtue of the ISS.
>
>The ISS is not a virtue. You have misunderstood, rather fatally I might add.

That depends on how you define virtue.  It appears that cognitive 
consensus between Habermasians & non-Habermasians on key terms in 
discussion will be impossible, constituting an outcome unwelcome in 
Habermas's theory.

Yoshie