Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:28:01 -0700
From: PCR <pcrugh-AT-iupui.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Mexican elections and the US


finally, a little or a lot late as this may be, the question is whether or not
politics qualifies as evidence of critical theory, and if so, then how so, and if not
then why is it on this list? the responsibility to explain anything lies on the
shoulder of the author or speaker, not the audience. your loaded questions, hh,
reminds me of what responsibility does in fact lie in the critical judgment of the
audience. it was not about marxist propaganda, nor liberal imperialism, but whether
or not politics has anything to do with literature. so, i am not saying either
choices of yours, albeit plausible to remove the ambiguity of my expressions, these
options of yours obfuscated any realistic idea about the matter (which is whether or
not politics has anything to do with literature, and if so, then how so, and while
telling us how so, then why so?).

Howard Hastings wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, PCR wrote:
>
> > I think this post of yours is on the wrong list, George, but I am not the
> > mediator. Politics is full of unimpressive rhetoric such as this. Perhaps, you
> > have read Karl Mannheim's sociology of knowledge, in "Utopia and Ideology",
> > written way back in 1936? It discusses the possibility of political science. In
> > any case, I don't think this list is a good place for propaganda. Care to
> > explain all this?
>
> Seems odd George should have to "explain" a post expressing worry about
> the effects of U.S economic hegomony over developing countries.
>
> Are you saying that it would be inappropriate to discuss politics on a
> list devoted to philosophy and literature?  Or are you saying that it
> would be inappropriate to discuss politics from any view other than that
> of the dominant liberalism in this country?
>
> hh
> .....................................................................
>
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