[lbo-talk] $39,000 handbag

[Miles Jackson]

shag carpet bomb wrote:
> Julio - yeah, used to be enamored of this position but I'm not any
> longer. As I said earlier, to Joanna, I think the whole project of
> basing a politics on a perspectivist epistemology is less than
> useless: "it's looking for a subject of history at all that's the
> problem."
> 
> Unlike Carrol, though, I think that folks who buy into this approach
> are pretty harmless. They're wrong, on my view, but they aren't going
> to do any serious damage and will end up sittingin a corner, with
> other believers, staring at their navels trying to decide who has a
> more legit right to speak, who is the true subject of history, who is
> more or less alienated, etc. based on their social location. As such,
> y'all are a pretty harmless bunch - in practice - cause y'all will
> never get shit done.

Shag's way too generous here.  Yes, it's harmless for those involved, 
but couldn't the political energy and activity be put to better use?

Miles