[lbo-talk] Interview with Michael Hardt

[Michael Dawson]

Personally, I find the new research on "positive psychology" and "flow" to
have rather serious socialist implications.  Strong social relationships,
altruism, and absorption in meaningful, difficult work produce happiness.
Higher piles of trinkets and more hours of passive entertainment do not.

One could start a worse project than trying to rewrite Das Kapital starting
from the human being, instead of the commodity, and employing this new
information about happiness and joy.


> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Thomas Seay
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:03 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Interview with Michael Hardt
> 
> Joy!  What a concept!  Of course there will be plenty
> of Leftists that dont think that is permissible as a
> subject of discussion.  These will be the same ones
> who dont like the slogan, "A better world is
> possible".
> They dont like either of these for the same reason:
> neither is gloomy enough.
> 
> Who can blame those not attracted to many of the
> movements on the Left.  Who wants to hang around with
> the secular reincarnations of calvinism?
> 
> Thomas
> --- Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > Thomas Seay quoted Michael Hardt:
> >
> > >not about
> > >our guilt but
> > >about
> > >our joy.
> >
> > That's really nice. There are a lot of reasons why I
> > like Hardt, but this is close to the top of the
> > list.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----------------------
> >
> > I think that the attitude which Hardt expresses here
> > is SO important for the left to grasp.
> >
> > Best,
> > Mike B)
> >
> > =====
> > "Whenever morality is based on theology,
> > whenever right is made dependent on
> > divine authority, the most immoral,
> > unjust, infamous things can
> > be justified and established."
> >
> > - Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872)
> >
> > http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal
> >
> >
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