[lbo-talk] speaking of...

shag shag at cleandraws.com
Wed Mar 5 14:29:06 PST 2008


eric wrote:


> This quote does point to one of the worst aspects of Badiou's
> politics: his demand that migrant identity, and other identitites, be
> subsumed under the name of the worker, as if migrant is an
> insufficiently political moniker. The motto of his activist group,
> Organisation Politique, is "whoever works here belongs here," which I
> can only read as labor being a necessity of citizenship/belonging.
> Not to mention positing that whoever is here but isn't working
> doesn't belong here, apparently.

ha ha. funny. i've been wanting to jump in on the stateless state thread but haven't had time. but one thing that always strikes me as a real problem for those who believe you can have a government administering things without the state is precisely this issue.

opaque. but i'm outta time.

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