> The fact that people in the left try to rationalize it
> and present it as some sort of sophisticated theory
> of social life makes things even worse. In its
> politically consequences, it is suicidal.
Actually, I should have said that such a view is antithetical with being on the left. Any suitable definition of the left (as a political force, however organized or fragmented it may be at a given time) must include the premise that we, as individuals, can consciously change our social conditions. Political action is precisely the mediation.