[PEN-L:3254] Re: Back to the land

[Rosser Jr, John Barkley]

Louis,
     Yeah, but does Betty Boop have a lesbian phallus?
Barkley Rosser
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 12:06:49 -0500 Louis Proyect 
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> Angela:
> >not at all.  i was asking how you would distinguish your yearning from
> >their's.  both of which, as zizek notes, echoing marx, are dreams of
> >the past from the position of the present.  idealisations - in short,
> >a kind of reverse utopianism, in the sense in which marx spoke of it:
> >as idealisation, one-sided dreaming.  
> 
> I haven't yearned for anything since a new Scwinn bicycle, which was back
> in 1957. For christs sake, can't you and Doug stop thinking in
> philosophical/psychological terms for five minutes? I am a prosaic,
> plodding, history-oriented moldy old Marxist fig who sees things in terms
> that can be quantified. Like how many acres a peasant got. Like how many
> children die of malnutrition. Like the literacy rate. Why don't we strike a
> compromise. You lace your posts with some historical or economic facts and
> I'll try to throw in some empty rhetoric in mine. How's this:
> 
> The bifurcation of the subject in post-Fordist society reflects the
> Lacanian dispostion toward a quasi-material psychoanalytic rebellion
> against the reconstituted ego. The penile rejection of virtual commodities,
> by the same token, is the dialectical obverse of the uterine search for the
> Holderlin.
> 
> Louis Proyect
> 
> (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
> 

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Rosser Jr, John Barkley
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