Re: The materialist road...-- Whoops, Ralphie, I "fucked-up"!

[davidmci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David McInerney)]

Whoops!  Ralph, I still love your posts, but I am afraid in my reply I
thought you had said the opposite of what you in fact did.  Oh well, so you
really weren't saying anything new at all.

>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>

Duh!  I read it as: " Resurrecting the subject has always been part and
parcel of Stalinism".  This *would* have been very unlike you Ralph,
wouldn't it!  Disregard the following warm and heartfelt greeting.  I
consider you marxist-humanist membership card to still be valid.
>
>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.

However, Ralphie, I consider the following positions to still ring true:

>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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