[lbo-talk] Time to Get Religion

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Dec 5 14:52:21 PST 2006


On Dec 5, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote:


> The point is not to deny the
> usefulness of a notion of ideology, just to say that we don't need
> obscure speech to talk about it, point to it, and look at how it
> functions.

The fetish for "clear speech" is yet another ideology. It assumes that truth can be made easily transparent. But, as the Old Man said, "There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits."

Doug



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