Geras v. Laclau

[LeoCasey at aol.com]

I don't think it will come as a surprise to anyone here that I think Laclau 
and Mouffe [she was a full partner in _Hegemony and Socialist Strategy_, 
and in the response to Geras] wiped the floor with Geras. In addition to 
his rather crude and reductionist conception of materialism, Geras' review 
was marked by those silly ad hominem arguments about how this book 
represented the psycho-political crises of middle-aged, radical 
intellectuals -- from which, of course, he was miraculously immune. Let's 
face it: you don't have to be a master of polemics -- and Laclau and Mouffe 
are no slouches -- to make mincemeat of that kind of pseudo-argument.

Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272
212-98-6869

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who 
want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and 
lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --

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