[lbo-talk] The Necrosocial

[Carrol Cox]

The text around which this discussion swirls is a Political Act; it is
not  a term paper; it is not a submission to a peer-reviewed journal; it
is not an article in the Nation or the Progressive or ATC. It is a
political act. Any discussion of it which does not recognize this 
context is obtuse. Discussionof its style or word choice, without first
a careful analysis of the politics (grounded in a correct reading of the
text from the point of view of the audience it is addressed to, is a
more or less deliberate evasion of the political act and of the context
of that political act in a number of wider contexts, the widest of which
is the state of left activity and strnegth within the heart of the heart
of world capitalism.

You have to look at it from the perspective of someone attemptign to
draw into political activity _some_ of those in the audience it
addresses. Shag is correct that it is theoretically possible for those
on this list (or other detached perspectives) to judge the text. But it
is obvious that in practiced none of its critics are wiliing or able to
do the research and thinking that would qualify then as competent judges
either of the politcis or of the style.

Carrol