Is Star Wars (the movie) Reactionary?

Brad DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Tue Feb 12 15:21:35 PST 2002



>Thomas,
>
>Great topic!
>
>I am not sure why one needs to believe in agency or free will to be
>considered leftist.

Indeed not. But then one is not being "leftist" of one's own choice, but because one is the bearer and expression of structural forces. In fact, it makes no sense to say that one "is" leftist, because the use of the word "is" presumes a self that has an identity. And without agency of free will, there can be none such...

Brad DeLong



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