[lbo-talk] melancholic

[Joanna]

"Not only does the model of the
continuum reduce the variety of political possibility in modernity to
matters of degree rather than kind, it erases the distinctiveness of a
Left critique and vision."

Very true. Interesting, in this context, to note the insistence on the 
representation of political possibility as a continuum -- at least as 
drummed into me, in high school: The radical left and right are first 
described as two extremes of a linear continuum, that are shown to 
actually meet (this can only be grasped by sophisticated minds!),  
united by the common factor of Totalitarianism....while the "middle," 
the apex of the continuum, occupies a sort of Buddhist golden center.

Joanna