[lbo-talk] Jacobin debate up

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 19 17:48:52 PDT 2011


On Oct 19, 2011, at 8:39 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:


> As best I can tell, what Doug is objecting to is the idea that "a way
> or life" is a sound approach to overthrowing capitalism.
>
> So, what he seems to be rejecting is the idea of a prefigurative
> politics where you try, as best you can, to live as if you already had
> the good society you hoped to build. Doug seems to reject this
> approach as northing more than an ethics - an ineffective politics
> and, in fact, not a politics at all - if I understand him.

Yup, exactly.



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