Hi Earl, I read what you wrote and agree with it. But it raises some questions. Can I think out loud here? What is necessary in order for a revolution to...
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Dec 2, 2006 3:03 pm
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I'd like to weigh in, if I can be allowed/forgiven for doing so. I'm unsure of the way Joe Grim-Feinberg has interpreted and reported Soren and Eric's comments...
I didn't really say why I thought a person/group like Rem Koolhaas was so important, and after a recent post I think I need to expand. A question like: "What...
In response to Joe's question, and elaborating a little further: I think it is important to regard capitalism as something that is (re)generated from the...
A particularly irksome neologism has crept into the idiom of some of the PlatypiÑÒself-criticalityÓ As in the nonsensical statement: ÒWhat we require is...
So all the failed forms of revolution are just'failed coups d'etat'? The Paris Commune, the Russian soviets of 1905 and 1917, the Spanish revolution of 1936,...
I am rather puzzled by exactly what (or perhaps rather WHOM?) this ³critique of criticality² --a famous Arab philosophical treatise of the Middle Ages was...
I agree with Earl¹s point here about the illusory character of believing one can simply come up with a ³new model². I wish though he had in his examples...
I sympathize with Atiya and Sunit's criticism here, especially as regards what it really takes to be self-reflexive in one's theory and practice -- please pay...
I also concur with Earl (and Richard) on this point about the possibility of some kind of a non-state power orientation for "revolution." I do take Ian's...
I am writing to announce that on Sunday, December 3, 2006, the Platypus Affiliated Society was formally constituted in Chicago. Comprised of over twenty...
(Atiya and Sunit's email led me to some reflections on how Platypus might approach the pervasiveness of anarchist-type assumptions on the current Left. This...
I am glad you respoded Richard, and added more substantial historical depth. I will be honest and say that I am ignorant on a certain level. For that reason I...
OK, here goes. I had wanted to get away from this topic but I guess it is inevitable...First, of all, I find Chris' hostility to "culture" baffling and...
I do not think the world we live in is so different from the past except so to speak at a technical and ideological level--and the latter, the ideological and...
I agree that the term "self-hating Jew" is almost meaningless, at least politically. On the "culture" issue: I despise culturalist politics. Richard, Marxists...
... Re: Marxism and national self-determination On 12/5/06 7:38 PM, "Chris Cutrone" <schwartzweiss@...> wrote: <<Richard, Marxists have never "supported"...
Good to see we agree on the basics here! On to 'smaller' issues involved: I am not opposed to organizing professionals at all. In fact, I've been part of...
... Re: "self hating Jew" On 12/5/06 7:38 PM, "Chris Cutrone" <schwartzweiss@...> wrote: <<I agree that the term "self-hating Jew" is almost meaningless,...
Ryan, While I am not particularly interested in defending the NK,and I certainly do not think they are "progressive", I feel like pointing out that the NK do ...
<<I don't share Richard's pov that 'bundling' Paris, 1905, 1917, Spain and Chile as dual power was wrong. They do/did have one basic feature in common: each...
Deans of North Park, Deans of North Park, My name is Amjad Al-Dajani. I am a Palestinian from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. I am also a graduate...
I wanted to clarify a few points as regards Dakota's excellent email. -- I am sympathetic to Dakota's idea of the need for an immanent critique of anarchism. ...
I think this quote by Kofi Annan really spells it out. "Some people imagine that the UN, a global institution, is itself one of those global forces that are...
P.S. I would like to add that, in the sense I have been discussing, ideology refers not only to the conceptual or ideational realm of consciousness, but to the...
Sorry. I should have provided context. Amjad is a good friend of mine. He sent the letter to me and some other people because he is actually getting grief from...
We have mentioned both anarchism and the neo-cons recently. There seems to be a certain symmetry here. Personally, I keep going back to the problem of ...
I think that there are serious problems with Richard's implicit definition of the Left. I maintain than Ahmedinejad is opposing the US from the Right. The...
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