Logic of identity

grok grok at sprint.ca
17 Apr 2003 09:13:12 -0400


On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 21:01, 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 thoroughly un-dialectical.

Never ceases to amaze me that the petit-bourgeois mind simply cannot
grasp that universals and particulars are not mutually exclusive.




-- grok.





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