[lbo-talk] Heidegger

[B.]

Jeremy Bentham bit the bullet in a slightly confusing
way long before Thatcher. 1789's _An Introduction to
the Principles and Morals of Legislation_'s chapter
"Of the Principle of Utility," section IV: "The
community is a fictitious body, composed of the
individual persons who are considered constituting as
it were its members. The interest of the community,
then, is what? -- the sum of the interests of the
several members who compose it."

On the one hand, "the community is a fictitious body,"
but on the other hand, "members ... compose it." It
isn't there, but actually it is. 

-B.

Carrol Cox wrote:

"Margaret Thatcher (and libertarians) bite the bullet:
there is no such thing as community except the private
household based on marriage."