From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox)
Subject: Re: Questions About Radical Democracy
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 22:38:59 -0600 (CST)


    If I follow Leo Casey's rough account of radical democracy at all,
then all or most versions of it do incorporate the repudiation of
"essentialism" and of "'grand' narratives" which is at the heart of
most so-called postmodernism.

    If that is the case, then in effect radical democracy radically
repudiates the possibility of writing any history at all. And I for
one cannot imagine separating a theoretical analysis from a political
project, for that is just another way of repudiating the possibility
of history. If separate theories can lead to the same political
project, then we have only a subjective chaos.

    I cannot see how Leo Casey's radical democracy, then, can escape
the critiques of Laclau and Mouffe offered by Woods and Geras.
    Carrol


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