File spoon-archives/habermas.archive/habermas_2001/habermas.0109, message 18


Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:15:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matthew King <making-AT-yorku.ca>
Subject: Re: HAB: Pearl Harbour and Manhattan


On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Karl Carlile wrote:

> Bush and company dont give a fig about the people killed in the US as a
> result of the air attack.

That, of course, is a prediction deduced from your ideological theory. I
wonder, though, do you actually believe it's true? If so, why?

> He is more concerned as to how the event will affect the
> class interests of the bourgeoisie. He is more concerned to exploit in such a
> way as to advance the class interests of the bourgeoisie he represents. His
> tears are that of two-bit actor.

Do you believe, in general, that claims ought to be discursively
redeemable? Do you believe that these particular claims are discursively
redeemable? What evidence do you have for these claims, apart from their
deducibility from your ideological theory?

By the by, I've been wondering whether the sort of capitalist
functionaries likely to have been killed in the World Trade Centre would
be regarded by any doctrinaire Marxists as agents of capitalist hegemony,
like police officers and soldiers.

If not, why not? If so, are some doctrinaire Marxists celebrating the
recent events?

Matthew

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