[lbo-talk] Butler

[Carrol Cox]

Because we are always already engaged in collective action and because
that collective action in the world is prior not posterior to any
awareness of self, our thought emerges from rather than captures an
extra-mental reality, so the question of being never arises. Being is a
mystery, a subject for deep philosophical investigation, only in Maggie
Thatcher's world, the world in which society doesn't exist, only
individuals.

This, ultimately, is the attraction of various forms of fascism to
20th-c intellectuals: Pound, Eliot, Yeats, Heidegger. They want
community, but they want a community made up of abstract
(self-determining) individuals, and fascism seemed to offer that.

Carrol