> (We are probably talking about 2% of the 35% who will not be voting).
These people
> are recruitable to revolutionary politics.
Gosh, this is exciting. I've always wanted to be recruitable. Don't tell
Special Branch or my aunty, anyone, please.
david b
----- Original Message -----
From: "egg" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 2:48 PM
Subject: a bit of philosphy heavy on the prejudice
> "However, you seem to ask what can be the
> role for philosophy if the working class is alienated and the Left is also
> alienated. First I would say that there is a section of the working class
> which is much less alienated than the Left. They will not be voting in the
> general election, they have no illusions whatsoever in Labour, and they
> hanker for the days when the working class threatened the State. (We are
> probably talking about 2% of the 35% who will not be voting). These people
> are recruitable to revolutionary politics. The role of Marxist philosophy
> over the next period is to break down illusions among this section as well
> as among revolutionaries (not the Left, who are largely irrelevant). The
> point about "looking at how the proletariat behaves" is an
> anti-idealist-activist one, about not justifying useless activism when the
> proletariat is screaming at the Left that it wants knowledge, not
whipped-up
> frenzies about this and that (e.g. the SWP/CPGB frenzy about the
election)."
>
> and
>
> "Phil Sharpe and Roy Bhaskar are the only people I have ever met who have
a
> good idea what Adorno
> was all about"
>
> and
>
> "BEYOND
> CAPITAL which I think will be the last great work of orthodox Marxism"
>
> wrote Phil Walden
>
>
> Blimey, what depressing rubbish. Albeit with a philosophical patina, i'm
> afraid you're in the same bin as Steve K, Phil. And as it goes the patina
> only serves to lengthen the distance between you and ANY dialectical
> understandings. True to the form of the X Trotsky Unity Group, politics,
> theory, culture, philosophy are the swamp out of which you impossibly
erect
> your prejudices. So, like Steve K, you hate THE LEFT , although (here we
go
> again) you're part of THE LEFT. And i'm afraid this stuff about Adorno etc
> is a stratagem, a ruse to inveigle in the endgame of your corrupt,
> embittered method to protect, god only knows why, your place in the
dustbin.
> "2% of the 35% who will not be voting" What is this madness man! It's not
> empirical, you'd hardly call it inspired guesswork. You're understanding
of
> absence and negative dialectics is a sham, at best a debating game,
> moderately appearing as a neurotic, hyper-ventilating individual, and at
> worst a cruel, oppressive break on consciousness and solidarity.
>
> So NOT healthy, NO desire, NOT creative, repeat NOTHING to do with
negative
> dialectics.
>
>
> Paul
>
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