----- Original Message ----- From: <LeoCasey at aol.com> To: "lbo-talk-digest" <LBO-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:31 AM Subject: Re: Geras v. Laclau
> 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
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>
> 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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>
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