> On 10/30/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > Life isn't about people. It's about Historical Forces.
>
> Since you are a Marxist and have been, at least in the past,
> sympathetic to poststructuralism, I find it odd that you get so
> endlessly exercised about this aspect of Carrol's thinking. Because
> he's right: Life is about the interaction of forces, and people only
> matter as indexes to those interactions.
"Life" is like that now? Or just the attempt to understand history and society?