Principled Discoursin' (was Re: [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy)

[dredmond at efn.org]

Quoting Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>:


> A general point.  In the Marxist tradition criticism (a) assumes a given
> level of unity and (b) moves towards a higher level of unity. It is the
> chief technique by which political unity is achieved. 

Quite the reverse. "The whole is the false", said Adorno in Minima Moralia. Any 
form of solidarity which reproduces the compulsory unity of the total system 
will also reproduce its horrors. 

-- DRR