> > > I agree, and it is also frustrating when _leftists_ cannot or refuse
> >> to make an analytical distinction between exploitation and other
> >> structural oppressions.
> >>
> >> Yoshie
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> >
> >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
>
> I think that making a contrast between "rational" & "irrational"
> doesn't help us grasp the nature of racism.
>
> Yoshie
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But a post Althusserian economism using econometrics that sufficiently demonstrates a benefit in practicing what we "should" "deplore" does?
Is "rationality" and "irrationality" like phlogiston?
Ian