[lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Jan 16 17:45:24 PST 2015


For what it's worth: I remain an admirer of Mao & the Chinese Revolution -- BUT as I argued on the old (Spoons) Marxist list, "Maoism" is an oxymoron. Mao specifically denied that he was promulgating a _theory_ (as the suffix 'ism' implies. His _thought_ was concretely addressed to temporally and spatially specific conditions, those of China. "Maoists" tried to turn that thought into an anstract _theory_ which they then attempted (and attempt) to impose on the concrete conditions of Europe and the U.S. Shane's Trotskyism (and Trotsky's Troskyism) made (and make) the same error as is basic to Maoism.

Carrol

P. S. And it was T. Rajan, not Carrol, who cites Hidegger.

-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Shane Mage Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 7:29 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse

On Jan 16, 2015, at 3:47 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
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"as Heidegger presciently saw in 1938, publishing is a form of governmentality"

As a good Maoist, Carrol obviously has no problems with its sister ideology, "Socialism with German Characteristics." A "form of governmentality" that states its opposition to a Revolutionary Government inspired by the "Thought" of Hitler, Muhammad, or Mao, is obviously CounterRevolutionary and needs to be suppressed by whatever means lie to hand, as parteigenoss Heidegger so "presciently" noted.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64

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