"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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