----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at attbi.com>
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> So it's an apriori that 'functional description' is *not a
description/ manifestation* of a group?
> We're back to all the pitfalls of epistemology/ontology of
> collectivities and their 'identities', 'functions' and 'powers'
> no? Are capitalists not a group? Pejoratives aside? That we're
> both asking about the politics of definitions is healthy, imo
and
> I'm happy to be wrong.....
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> Ian
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