power

[joanna bujes]

At 11:04 PM 12/03/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Love is a social relation and certainly also a power relation.
>Of course love involves power. Always. In many forms. And between parents and
>children, the whole idea of "responsibility" is certainly also about power.

I don't see this. We may be mired in a conflation of "power to" vs "power 
over," but it has always seemed to me that love relinquishes both power and 
the desire for power. But I suppose this has to do with whether you "love" 
someone only to the extent that they are a source of gratification for you 
or wether you love someone and therefore wish them and help them to be free.

Joanna