[FRA:] Marcuse ? [check]

[matthew piscioneri]

Fred

Is this how the post came out on your screen? On mine it looks as if the 
computer gremlins got to that post...

>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
>
>
>
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