[lbo-talk] Re: the postmodern prince

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Dec 7 08:46:44 PST 2003


Brian Charles Dauth wrote:


>Unfortunately, this is a mistake. The concept of "rich individuality" is
>just another way of propping up a false sense of identity. Had Marx
>expanded his horizons to Eastern thought he might have avoided this error.

Not for me, thank you. Maybe I'm hopelessly corrupted by the West, but I have no interest in embracing anti-individualist notions from the East. I'm a socialist because, like Marx and many of his followers, I think that capitalism limits the development of a rich individuality by forcing us to become money-grubbing competitive monads, just as capitalism frustrates the political promises of free expression and democratic governance. I have no interest in emptying my ego.

What is a true sense of identity?

Doug



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