[lbo-talk] "Cheer the Fuck Up"

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Mon May 3 08:53:39 PDT 2004


On Sun, 2 May 2004, Ted Winslow wrote:


>
> Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> > I think this is one of the crucial things to understand about F:
> > "the thing one is fighting" is not a person or even a group of
> > people. Rather, it is the social formation that makes certain
> > types of people and groups.
>
> "In the case of popular justice ... you have the masses and their
> enemies. Furthermore, the masses, when they perceive somebody to be an
> enemy, when they decide to punish this enemy - or to re-educate him -
> do not rely on an abstract universal idea of justice, they rely on

[snip]

This passage is irrelevant to my post. Read Kel's recent post for the context of the original quote.

Miles



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