[FRA:] Marcuse question

[matthew piscioneri]

Fred,

a brief coda on the absurdity of the realpolitik. Following the exhaustion 
of the Multi-Fibre Agreement a couple of years ago, literally hundreds of 
thousands of jobs and thereby people's lives were thrown into turmoil in 
some of the most vulnerable countries in the world (Bangladesh, Indonesia, 
the Philipines, Vietnam, Mexico). A great many of these jobs were, not so 
incidentally, lost to China, whose now very diluted brew of Marxist-Leninism 
obviously ignores any type of internationalist, workers' solidarity. What's 
so absurd? The extent to which the developed world Wal-Marted out to China. 
I don't even need to spell out the dialectical consequences. Power begets 
power begets resistance begets power and so on. The only circuit breaker I 
can see to this endless cycle is to -- on a personal level -- stop one's own 
fretting about it all. Little wonder that Horkheimer especially more and 
more took philosophical solace in a sort of religio-mystical *safe* place. 
As I get older, I can only understand *the world* within a cosmo-ethical 
framework :-). It's THAT absurd, IMO.

best regards,

mattp