[lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse

[Carrol Cox]

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.

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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse

On Jan 16, 2015, at 3:47 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
"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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