Query for fun & making trouble ;->

[kelley]

At 11:16 AM 1/9/02 -0600, Carrol Cox wrote:
>Conspiracy theories usually seem to claim that there is only a symbolic
>relationship between appearances (or empirical actuality) and essence
>(or reality or cause).

what do you mean by "symbolic"?

a number of folks have commented on the similarities between freudian 
theory with claims about a reality systematically distorted by social 
relations of inequality and marxian theories of the same, but at a social 
structural, rather than individual level.

kelley