Your reality and mine are very different as indeed are all individual
realities, for realities are built from our individual congitive frameworks,
perceptions and the indivudual journey we make through what we suppose to be
the world, not everything you or anyone else does empowers me and the other
way around, but I do agree that there is often a class perspective in every
struggle for recognition as well as all manner of other cross cutting
cleavages such as gender, age and ethnicity.
In order to criticise the world I have to understand it from the only
perspective I can understand it from, and that is my own. However that being
said classic Marxism has failed us all and created new levels of oppression
and has indeed failed to look at much that Marx and his contemporaries were
quite expectedly and logically unable to predict. No ideologies are pure or
uniquely effective and often they have tenous connection with others
different realities. That is why post modernism is to me the only realism.
Larry
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Colin Revell
> Sent: 08 March 2006 14:53
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> Subject: Re: Social vs. impairment models
>
>
> Can we stick to the 'reality' of how the social model empowers disabled
> people?
>
> Why is no one mentioning 'CLASS' divisions?
>
> Disabled people from lower socio-economic (underclass)
> backgrounds are the
> most marginalised and oppressed group of people and I know that,
> like many
> other disabled people who live this underclass experience every
> day within
> our lifecourses
>
> What can postmodern theories do to release the poor from the shackles of
> oppression?
>
> What does postmodern theory have to offer the poor?
>
> Do the poor really understand postmodern theory anyway, or given the
> equality of opportunities to understand it?
>
> How is it going to impact on and empower Charlie, or Jo-Anne (fictional
> names) life's, or disabled people living down my street and in
> communities
> all over the UK and global world?
>
> What impact on their life's do postmodern theories have in changing the
> lives and creating equality of opportunities and 'justice' for
> all disabled
> people in the UK and global world?
>
> Have we really moved on from the 'modernity' project?
>
> Is postmodern discourse just for the privileged few middle/upper class
> academics, that excluded the 'voices' of the poor?
>
> FREEOURPEOPLE (not just the privileged few white middle/upper
> classes, but I
> mean 'ALL')
>
> Yours
>
> Colin Revell
>
>
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