Doug,
in response to Medley's question about why you bother with pomo, you
replied (below) with a list of the bad, in your view, effects of pomo on
politics. You don't go as far as Cardinal Ratzinger went, under orders from
the Pope, to chastise the theological innovations of liberation theology
priests: after all you can't. But it begins to sound like you might have
liked to have the power of Cardinal Ratzinger (I believe I have the
spelling correct); Only trouble is I don't believe you KNOW what surplus
value any more than manuel Castels,nor do I. But I think pomos are more
open to accept difference and discussion than you seem to, so we can
discuss it; acknowledging difference is a precondition for true solidarity
and political unity.
Antonio Callari
and that's part of the problem. >For the same reason I spend so much time
studying Wall Street, even though
>I despise it - because it is profoundly influential. Because a whole
>generation of intellectuals - not only in the First World but increasingly
>in the Third - have embraced it, with disastrous political results.
>
>When Habermas said that "technology and science become a leading productive
>force, rendering inoperative the condition for Marx's labor theory of
>value" and "scientific-technical progress has become an independent source
>of surplus value" he contributes to an erasure of the working class from
>political life, and allies himself with George Gilder and Wired magazine.
>Ditto Manuel Castels, with his vision of "information" as a directly
>productive force. When Donna Haraway celebrates "otherness, difference, and
>specificity," she is making more difficult any intellectual contribution to
>the development of solidarity and collectivity.
>
>There, that specific enough for you?
Antonio Callari and/or Elisabeth King-Callari
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