On 7/27/06, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> I know she's so hard to find that it sounds like a joke to try to find
> her, but I'm for the moment thinking like a Romantic poet after the
> defeat of the French Revolution:
I don't know, but it sure seems like you're creating a highly (homo)
eroticized, which suggests exoticized, fantasy Islam. First it was
that pic of Ahmadinejad kissing a man, and now this luscious
socialist-feminist who writes like (the uber-romantic) Shelley.
What's this all about?
Libido is essential, not optional, in politics. What turns them on?
You have to have a feel for that. Otherwise, you don't get it, even
if you have all the facts at your disposal.
Fantasy, too, is indispensable. To be sure, it's been either maligned
or neglected by many in the Marxist tradition, but there have been
socialists who recognized its role:
Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Eduardo Galeano, Jean Genet, José Carlos
Mariátegui, Oscar Wilde, etc.
Notice that none except Wilde (who was Irish) comes from the
English-speaking countries. No wonder the Anglo-American Marxists
have been the weakest link. You look at Marxists in the USA, the UK,
Canada, and Australia, and you realize . . . there is no sex appeal
here!
--
Yoshie
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