Bookchin v. "lifesyle anarchism"

Dennis Robert Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Mon May 7 14:48:51 PDT 2001


On Mon, 7 May 2001, Gordon Fitch wrote:


> I think it's difficult to say whether Emerson was about anything
> in particular.

That's because he believed in the Hegelian generality, in which all particulars are equally grey. His "Great Men" is a hoot -- Plato is described as the gorgeous synthesis of intuitive, feminized, colonial Asia, and rational, grasping, male, acquisitive Europe. Transcendentalism was immanent nationalism, at a time when national capitalism was still, as Marx would put it, objectively revolutionary -- but no less problematic for that.

-- Dennis



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