Logic of identity

Ralph Dumain rdumain at igc.org
Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:04:48 -0400


At 01:01 AM 4/17/2003 +0000, matthew piscioneri wrote:
>sure solidarity with your family, neighbours and community. Doesn't this 
>comes prior to ideas of class? You see people hurting around you and this 
>SHOULD elicit solidarity. What next? Information, education, resistance, a 
>cup of tea. On a micro level solidarity IMO just isn't in question. Moving 
>to the macro is where the cracks start to appear in the socialist 
>ideological apparatus. Grand holistic aspirations (domination of the 
>universal, perhaps) lead to the suppression of the particular. Isn't that 
>the logic of the identity? Isn't that what Foucault learnt from H. & A., 
>and why he could only theorize local resistance?

How much more of this horseshit are we going to have to read?