WB on its critics

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Fri Aug 17 17:18:01 PDT 2001



> > What's a leftist to do when the word arises? Point out
> > it's a propaganda word, or at most an empty signifier?
> > I believe the word is gaining wider usage.
>
> Isn't the term (used as shorthand for all sorts of evil processes)
just as
> significant a part of the lefty lexicon? I think that's a big part
of the
> problem.
>
> -- Luke
======= It's a brain sticker; the signifier makes imperialism communicationally cumbersome. And democratic cosmopolitanism does not make for prose either. We need to sit with a dictionary for a while on this one 'cause the spin is gonna be insidious for the next few weeks and months.

Ian



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