> > Tahir: Yes, of course. You are no doubt now saying that there is no
> > such thing as bourgeois consciousness, ideology, forms of
>abstraction,
> > etc. You're getting closer to the truth, the truth about what you
> > really
> > think, Doug. The alternatives to bourgeois thought are all forms of
> > religion and/or psychosis, according to you, no?
>
>No. I'm not saying any such thing. I'm saying that crisis is a wrong
>and misleading word to use for a constant state of affairs.
>
>I've seen you say it. Secondly, "constant state of affairs" to describe
>the world is the most banal piece of ideology I've ever seen. Such
>hyper-abstraction can have no empirical foundation of any kind.
>Tahir