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Comment on Full Metal Jacket

2010-01-26T17:33:11Z

I see parallels between those who believe in the values of communism but can't use the name ( or socialism for that matter) and those who are looking to name a political body that arbitrates disputes but can't use the name "state". Society?council system? collective? on and on. Shakespeare comes to mind.

Comment on Like the Seduction of Religion: Confessions of a Would-Be Anarchist

2009-10-07T18:03:28Z

As you both know I have been exploring both some of these language questions and these pragmatist questions of who can say who recognizes their own self-interest? It is hard , under capitalist social relations especially, to come up with a "we" but forms of resistance seem like one , often tenuous , way to form some unity.

My utopian vision is of social relations of honest disagreements coming from many differing subject positions (pluralism) and a real politics to deal with arguments. I see this as a possible mediation of hierarchy but requires much cultural transformation. ( for which I remain hopeful)

Comment on Like the Seduction of Religion: Confessions of a Would-Be Anarchist

2009-10-03T21:28:24Z

Not sure what you believe your use of language serves, but with that reply, it is no longer my interest.
if this shows up twice, blame your blog mechanism. It wiped out the first time.

Comment on Like the Seduction of Religion: Confessions of a Would-Be Anarchist

2009-10-03T21:23:30Z

Not sure what you think you are using language for, but you certainly lost my interest with that reply.

Comment on Like the Seduction of Religion: Confessions of a Would-Be Anarchist

2009-10-03T14:35:53Z

Yodood - Not sure I can explain anything. After all explanation is a tool of scientific and historical consciousness; I endorse neither of those!

Comment on Like the Seduction of Religion: Confessions of a Would-Be Anarchist

2009-10-02T22:05:35Z

Sandy,
Couldn't help but notice throughout this piece you are plenty inclusive with your pronoun "we" while naming the lulled prey of your ingenious plot until at the end where you wish everyone would enjoy "THEIR freedom as if you were no longer among them. Could you explain how you do that, or even how your generalization seems to include victims and the system, denying any alternative to your duality, or individual, tribal syntheses of both. These are those "interesting times", and doomsdayers seem like little more than hysterical cheerleaders for inevitability.

Comment on A Zero Sum Game: the Hegemon Speaks

2009-10-02T01:35:46Z

troutsky - I am afraid his behavior is a symptom of political life... it is what political gamesmanship is all about... he thinks he is god... and he is in this arena... anything he says goes... well prepare for the END!!!

Comment on Like the Seduction of Religion: Confessions of a Would-Be Anarchist

2009-10-02T01:33:11Z

troutsky - that is my central problem. I am not certain there is an objective method by means of which to alter the landscape postively, politically or otherwise. I think civilization, and its political 'systems' are the symptom of the problem... so another 'system' cannot fix things. The root cause of course is the change in human social groupings that brought about hierarchy. That I do not know how to undo.

Comment on Like the Seduction of Religion: Confessions of a Would-Be Anarchist

2009-10-01T17:43:25Z

kultur, I know and for the most part accept your critique but I wish you could define "system" a little more clearly and identify points of attack. It is hard to create a strategy to fight a hegemon if we don't know it's objective method of reproducing itself. Just changing government officials doesnt do it, more alternative media doesnt do it,becoming involved in capitalist politics doesnt do it.....?

Comment on A Zero Sum Game: the Hegemon Speaks

2009-10-01T17:34:11Z

He has turned saying one thing and doing another an art form. My wife is terrified we will get Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber but I think their honesty might be refreshing. How do you like your totalitarian capitalism, injected inthe middle of the night or served up on a bun in broad daylight?