"post-leftism"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Aug 16 14:29:14 PDT 2002


JCWisc at aol.com wrote:


>Does hierarchy rest simply and solely on coercion?

Given the apparent human propensity - even longing - to submit to authority, I'd say not. Which takes me back to Judith Butler's argument in the Psychic Life of Power - that the human subject is formed in subjection (e.g. to adult power and the laws of language).

Doug



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