Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 11:47:43 -0500
From: "Daniel F. Vukovich" <vukovich-AT-students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Fouc Hayek, ad nauseam


At 06:18 AM 7/30/98 -0400, dls wrote:
 
>It seems that we agree on something [in re marketS vs *the* market] .
However, this leaves >me little confused >as to how you're willing to
engage in >*P*olitics and do >not limit >yourself to *p*olitics.

{snip}

I wrote: >  Funny, though, how this -- and the critique of
>>rationality to boot -- doesnt preclude some of us from defending the
>>idea/project of socialism.)

And dls responded: >>Indeed.

Well, in short, the intellectual and ethical commitment to socialism is
what allows (or requires) me to *not* limit myself to *p*olitics (as
opposed to *P*olitics).  Or in other words I don t think struggles over any
instance of lower case *p*olitics can be "won" or even addressed without
winning and tackling them all.  Which amounts to having or performing an
upper case *P*olitics.  I would agree that questions of big *P* politics
and power are indeed fraught, but I feel that this is one of those
self-deconstructive "binarisms"/hierarchies that we cannot not inhabit (as
Derrida might say).

[snip]  

>>And yet, I am bemused at how well-nigh *any* critique of >what counts
as>>capitalism and the ideology of the market >generates, in some quarters,
a>>knee-jerk response about >those vulgar, anti-intellectual anti-postmodern
>>anti-pluralist Marxists.  
>
>Moi? Knee-jerk? Nah! Or maybe those behaviorists are >right after all!

The return of Comrade Pavlov!  

>
>Hugs and kisses!
>
>deliciously liminal subjectivities

Now *this* is funny!  LOL and *smooches* to you! (in chat room parlance).
Can we can call you "deelish" for short?

Best,

Daniel


Daniel Vukovich
English; The Unit for Criticism
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign