[PEN-L:9413] Re: Re: My Ideologies

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brad De Long wrote:

>
>To which of my ideologies are you referring?
>
>(A) My--ideological--belief that the liberal ideological commitment
>to the autonomous subject is a good (although false) stance to adopt
>because it is less likely than other stances to lead to horrible
>crimes committed in the name of Reason or Utopia?
>
>(B) My--ideological--belief that it is better to inquire whether a
>cat catches mice than whether it is red or white?

(A). I'm not willing to go all the way with this analysis, because I
think there's some salvageable value to the bourgeois subject, but
still, the BS effaces a lot of what it depends on, like the
exploitation of the proles and the marginalization of women, the
colonized, and the mad.

Doug