Re: [Marxism] interesting but long article on R. D. Laing

[Max Clark <poeticaleconomy@xxxxxxxxx>]

What does it matter if Laing was a proper family man? Moreover, if his poetry 
was drivel? What of whatever other biographical ephemera one wants to conjure 
up? The Times article posted on this list addresses everything about Laing 
except for what distinguishes him: his theoretical contributions. It instead 
ignites every moral qualm instilled in us by private property (especially that 
proto-racist famialism so dear to traditional psychology) to wreak an indirect 
devaluation of the 'libertarian' Laing. I consider this is an act of 
intellectual cowardice, if not an 'irrational, ignorant, self-satisfied & 
arrogant [conservative] impulse'. Peter Sedgwick's *Psychopolitics* is 
available to those looking for a more substantial critique, whatever its 
own upsetting limits.

(I would rage apoplectic about this much further, excepting for that the near 
omnipotent bigotry against schizos and their ilk appears as an impenetrable fog 
for the moment.)


      
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