I never really understood the appeal of Derrida for people who consider themselves radicals. Part of the whole point of Heidegger/Foucault/Derrida is that nothing ever really changes. The system of presence/power/signifiers always preserves itself. It's really rather quietist. On one level -- the basically deep metaphysical/theological one that Heidegger and Derrida were talking about* -- that's probably true, but it doesn't really lend itself to application on the political plane.
*I know both of them would have eschewed those terms, but "theology" and "metaphysics" have technical meanings for Derrida and Heidegger, and I'm using them in a more everyday fashion.
--- On Fri, 4/10/09, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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> I wrote a review of Derrida's engagement with Marxism here:
> http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/ghostly_demarcations2/
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> (Unfortunately the web-publisher took all the footnotes off
> it)
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