[lbo-talk] On Theorizing the Demand for Demands

[// ravi]

On Oct 25, 2011, at 7:28 PM, Mike Beggs wrote:
> I don't see either of you as ultra-left, especially not you Carrol.
> You are almost the direct opposite (I don't mean ultra-right of
> course) with your Olympian position and disdain for moralism. My
> interpretation of your politics is that it is quite close to a Second
> International position asserting historical inevitability, with a key
> reversal of the 'inevitability' to 'indeterminacy' - the similarity
> remaining in that there is no role for conscious efforts to change the
> course of history.

कर्मण्ये वाधिकारस्ते म फलेषु कदाचना
कर्मफलेह्तुर भुरमा ते संगोस्त्वकर्मानी॥

WTH, I am told it’s Deepavali.

	—ravi