> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 6:21 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Exploitation (was Re: BK on Identity)
>
>
> >yes, i'm frustrated because trying to talk about structural
> >oppression is like banging your head against the wall and i see the
> >same problems on LBO -- people are much more interested in locating
> >racism solely in the individual, etc. the whole B&K on identity
> >thread was pretty clear evidence of that, to me.
> >
> >kelley
>
> I agree, and it is also frustrating when _leftists_ cannot or refuse
> to make an analytical distinction between exploitation and other
> structural oppressions.
>
> Yoshie
************
All defenders of methodological holsim need to take great care to avoid fallacies of compositon as well as paying close attention to that potentially enantiadromian moment when irrationality at the individual level is generative of a self-validating "rational collective interest" at a different level of analysis.
Ian