[lbo-talk] Moscow's social democracy

[Seth Ackerman]

Doug Henwood wrote:

> The parent/child thing of yesterday was an allusion to the aborted 
> conversation about Judith Bulter's Psychic Life of Power that almost 
> began this list: if the human subject is founded in subjection, that 
> subject may come to fear the loss of authority as threatening psychic 
> cohesion. We are, of course, on alert not to produce a little 
> authoritarian, but some degree of coercion comes with the territory. I 
> think the idea that undergirds a lot of anarchist thought - not just 
> Bookchin but Chomsky, who's said as much - that humans are hard-wired 
> for freedom (or are born free but are everywhere in chains, as some 
> old Froggie put it) is wishful thinking.


Yeah, but the urge to rebel against the parent-figure seems to be 
hardwired too.

Seth