Louis Proyect wrote: > Haven't you heard of the concept of > the "invisible government"? I guess > you were not around in the U.S. > during the 1960s radicalization when > people were focusing on institutions > like the Trilateral Commission, the > CFR, etc. We don't get to vote for > who runs them, do we?
Have you ever heard of, or read, something like this? "Humans make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition [i.e. the choices] of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living." History is not restricted to electoral history. Or, are "invisible governments" above the reach of human history? You seem to have a narrow, legalistic notion of choice, as if it were limited to at most formal elections. Actually, let me take back the adjective "legalistic." Because even a judge, Antonin Scalia has a broader conception of collective choice, since he's in the record suggesting that the "right to a revolution" is the ultimate political right of Americans. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
