From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 07:29:00 EST
Subject: Re: New Year, Same Old Crap


In a message dated 1/7/99 4:02:58 AM Pacific Standard Time,
N.E.Widder-AT-lse.ac.uk writes:

<<  And quite a number
 of "academics" have been central in opening up these terms to multiplicity
 -- as well as other "isms" such as feminism, other political movements such
 as gay and lesbian movements, and the like.  >>

And quite a number of Nonacademic thinkers have invented quite a lot more ...
namely, people involved in social movements [this doesn't necessarily disclude
those involved in academia mind you, but it includes a whole hell of a lot
more] ...

"Your top down theory of
power " ... well, I'm not sure this is entirely  my position ... although the
state Is a hierarchical machine ... i'm not leaving out complicity due to all
sorts of factors ; i did mention the way tendencies are manipulated and
misfortunes of difference turned into divisions ... obviously the state has to
play upon real tendencies in order to build itself ... there's all sorts of
complexities when you look with a microscope ... but you'd still have to be
totally blind not to see large power structures that rule the society in quite
hierarchical manners ...