From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 05:21:34 EST
Subject: Re: critical marx


In a message dated 1/7/99 2:00:33 AM Pacific Standard Time, daniel-AT-tw2.com
writes:

<< do you really think that, say, the idea of "class struggle" is
 sufficient here? that it makes everything fall into place?  it seems a
 bit anthropomorphic, to say the very least. >>

But again, I'm not talking about Marx! The post you quote is trying to point
out that a great variety of social critique is Reduced and Totalized by
intellectuals under the heading of "Marx" or "Marxism", and Marx is not the
sum total of working class critiques of power. Also, if you read my later post
on racism, i try to explain how power can turn the difficulties of difference
into divisions ... so it's not as if power itself creates differences nor the
difficulties that arrive when differences meet ... but how things are
construed ... and encouraging tendencies ... we see this very clearly in the
modern world with the CIA funding certain tendencies etc