David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Nov 7 11:32:04 PST 2002


Ian Murray wrote:
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> Still addicted to classes without subjects heh Carrol? If you can't hold
> people responsible for consumption how can you blame them for pathologies in
> the mode of production, property etc. or anything else? You can't blame a
> class, a class is not a subject.
>

Why do you want to blame anyone? It seems a sort of passive procedure, and seldom has any content other than "How wonderful that I am holier than him/her/them/you." DennisP is feeling very superior to various people on this list, but his blamings aren't buttering many parsnips.

I don't disagree with Yeats's "How can you tell the dancer from the dance," except that in critique, polemics, etc. it is the dance (considered in abstraction from the dancer) that needs to be praised or condemned, because only the dance is repeatable.

Carrol


> Ian



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