From: SUBTILE-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 94 12:24:01 EDT
Subject: Laclau/Mouffe, Fukuyama, Marx


Sam Fassbinder here again....
Comrades,
The Laclau/Mouffe posts have been very interesting.  I read HEGEMONY AND
SOCIALIST STRATEGY awhile ago -- I'm not really clear what that stuff is
supposed to do for people in terms of helping better their lives.  I saw
Ernesto Laclau in person in Claremont CA about 3 years ago, and an exchange
with a questioner in the audience stuck in my memory of the event.  Laclau
had no theoretical answer for why the civil rights movement of Martin Luther
King has improved people's lives -- his definition of words such as
"liberation" or "emancipation" had no relevance to such historical events.

In the recent issue of NEW LEFT REVIEW Jacques Derrida has a piece on Marx
that discusses Francis Fukuyama in depth.  

The question I would consider crucial to the debate between Fukuyama and
marxists would be: "Is there an alternative to capitalism"?
-Samuel Day Fassbinder



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