[lbo-talk] Heartfield on Derrida

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Apr 10 20:52:01 PDT 2009


James Heartfield wrote:
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> Still, the philistines among us can chuckle at this from the German ideology: "Philosophy and the study of the actual world have the same relation to one another as onanism and sexual love" (though no doubt the metaphor has lost its power since sex educators have taken to talking up the spiritually uplifting benefits of masturbation).

Someplace Mao remarks that in a thousand years even Marxc & Lenin will look silly. I presume he meant not that they as persons would look silly but that their thought would against a thousand years of further thinking. And Robert Albritton argues that "historical materialism" (I'm not sure what content he gives it) will not prove necessary or useful in a socialist world. Could be.

Carrol



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