Re: The materialist road...

[davidmci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David McInerney)]

Oh Ralph!  Welcome back!  How I've missed you!

 Fri, 12 Jan 1996 Ralph wrote:

>Jukka, your post on materialism, structure and agency, and
>Althusser was very good.  If you can get something out of this
>Lacanian crap, good for you.  However, Lacan and the Slovenians
>sound very unappealing even by your description.
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>The category of the subject is not just the province of precious
>academics and philosophers.  Resurrecting the subject has always
>been part and parcel of the fight against Stalinism.<cut>

Oh Ralph!  Welcome to the Althusserian fold comrade!  This was Althusser's
main thesis on Stalinism in 'The Transformation of Philosophy'.  You've
left your theoretical humanist past behind you!

>So if
>we can strangle Shawgi Tell with the entrails of David McInerney,
>we can help prevent the reoccurrence of the disease.

Huh?  I think I could do a better job of strangling Stalinists if I were
alive.  As a major opponent of the philosophy of the subject on this list,
by your criteria I'm just the man to do it.

>Instead of wasting any more time over the Parisian Strangler, I
>recommend checking out the recent discussion on the Bhaskar list
>of structure and agency, which is on a much higher level.

Oh Ralph!  You've bought into the infantile disorder of Bhaskarism!
Bhaskar attempts to use Althusser to give himself Marxist status, and
foolishly believes that Althusserian theory supports his critical realist
approach.  The majority of anglo-Althusserians these days love Bhaskar and
want to be adopted by him as his children.  If you are going to become an
Althusserian I implore you to do it properly.


Mr. David McInerney,
Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences,
The Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., AUSTRALIA  0200.
e-mail: davidmci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ph: (06) 249 2134; fax: (06) 249 3051




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