Logic of identity

[matthew piscioneri]

According to H. & A. in their _DoE_ is the dynamic of the logic of identity 
(the universal's totalising domination of the particular) that of "self 
preservation?

Also to make available a number of quotes from the _DoE_ which I think help 
clarify the earlier thread on Marxism and H&A:

The bad conscious of cliques which ultimately embody economic necessity is 
betrayed in that its revelations, from the intuitions of the Leader to the 
dynamic Weltanschauung, no longer recognize (in marked contrast to earlier 
bourgeois apologetics) their own misdeeds as necessary consequences of 
statutory contexts. (1995: 37-38)

But to recognize domination, even in thought itself, as unreconciled nature, 
would mean a slackening of the necessity whose perpetuity socialism itself 
prematurely confirmed as a concession to reactionary common sense. By 
elevating necessity to the status of the basis for all time to come, and by 
idealistically degrading the spirit for ever to the very apex, socialism 
held on all too surely to the legacy of bourgeois philosophy. Hence the 
relation of necessity to the realm of freedom would remain merely 
quantitative and mechanical, and nature, posited as wholly alien – just as 
in the earliest mythology – would become totalitarian and absorb freedom 
together with socialism. (1995: 41)

With the abandonment of thought, which in its reified form of mathematics, 
machine, and organization avenges itself on the men who have forgotten it, 
enlightenment has relinquished its own realization. By taking everything 
unique and individual under its tutelage, it left the uncomprehended whole 
the freedom, as domination, to strike back at human existence and 
consciousness by way of things. But true revolutionary practice depends on 
the intransigence of theory in the face of the insensibility with which 
society allows thought to ossify. (1995: 41)

I don't think marxism escaped H & A's critique of reason as the above quotes 
suggest,

mattP


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