[lbo-talk] The First Time as Farce, the Second Time as Tragedy

Ted Winslow egwinslow at rogers.com
Sat May 15 09:26:56 PDT 2004


Yoshie made use of an idea from:


> "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon," 1852

The Eighteenth Brumaire makes the insightful claim that "the state power is not suspended in air." To apply this to the analysis of likely similarities and differences between Kerry and Bush versions of "state power," you need to examine the kind of self-consciousness that would underpin each, don't you? To find support in this kind of analysis for your claims, wouldn't you have to show that, on balance, the self-consciousness productive of an electoral victory for Kerry would be more "prejudiced" and "superstitious" (i.e. less "enlightened") than the self-consciousness productive of an electoral victory for Bush?

Ted



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