[lbo-talk] How radical was Derrida? (was 'does anyone read poststructuralism anymore?')

[c b]

There is a [valid] theory that belief in and tithing to God and
> other
> religions has contributed mightlily to their remaining exploited and
> oppressed for about 5,000 years. Strange, but true. Not exactly that
> they got nothing from the belief...

They got much *less* than nothing. Unlike those who were cured by
their belief in the efficacity of a witches' spell.

Shane Mage

^^^^^^^^

CB: The theory goes on to speculate that some of them may have gotten:

the general theory of their world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its
logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm,
its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of
consolation and justification,
their sigh as oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and
the soul of soulless conditions and a sort of opium . (smile)

All of which might amount to less than what you get from some witches' spells.