[lbo-talk] Conversation with Derrida

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Thu Nov 5 18:53:37 PST 2009



>
>> On Nov 5, 2009, at 6:56 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
>>
>>> Shane writes that the founders 'made absolutely sure that neither
>>> the word nor the concept appear in their Constitution and
>>> Declaration. Even the Bill of Democratic Rights that they were
>>> forced to accept (in words only) includes no mention of democracy'
>>>
>>> Yes, but Marx says 'Democracy is the solution to the riddle of
>>> every constitution. In it we find the constitution founded on its
>>> true ground: real human beings and real people; not merely
>>> implicity and in essence, but in existence and in reality. The
>>> constitution is thus posited as the people's own creation. The
>>> constitution is in appearance what it is in reality: the free
>>> creation of man.' Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State, in
>>> the Penguin Early Writings collection, p 87
>>>
>>> In other words, just the act of making the constitution contains
>>> the germ of democracy.
>>
>> Of course I agree. That is exactly why I called the "Bill of
>> Rights" (first ten amendments) the "Bill of Democratic Rights."
>> And why I argue that the proper legal interpretation of the
>> Constitution is its *literal* interpretation.
>>
>>
>> Shane Mage
>>
>>> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
>>> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
>>> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>>>
>>> Herakleitos of Ephesos
>>
>
> Shane Mage
>
>> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
>> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
>> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>>
>> Herakleitos of Ephesos
>

Shane Mage Shane Mage


> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos



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