Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:Hardt:"Spinoza was a communist thinker long before Marx"

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Murray wrote:
>
>
> > Perhaps I'm not understanding you.
> >
> > Carrol
> =========
> Hey Carrol, haven't you been following the thread? In a paroxysm of
> post-modern reflexivity and irony not seen since May '68, commissar
> Furuhashi asserted with Cartesian certitude that I'm a dogmatist and
> closed down the discussion

I had read the discussion, and had not particularly been entering it
_because_ your posts had increasingly seemed to me to be foreclosing
discussion by announcing in advance (in what I referred to as your
metatheoretical pronouncements) that the only basis for disagreement
would be Commissr-like dogmatism. You were a free spirit, and opposition
to a free-spirit such as you was precluded in advance. Hence responses
seemed pointless, the wells of discourse having been poisoned.

Yoshie had tried to respond with arguments, which you continually
dismissed as irrelevant because dogmatic. In other words, the name of
the sender guaranteed the irrelevancy of the arguments.

That is, you had already closed off argument. Yoshie simply labelled
what was already de facto the case.

In the past, you seemed always or usually to respond to content, not
messenger. Hence my puzzlement and my hope that I was misunderstanding
you. Apparently I was not.

Carrol

...I mean argument. Obviously some of the
> children of '68 would prefer not to learn some of the lessons of that
> period, so like a good Stakhanovite I'm off to read Erasmus and Sextus
> Empiricus. Lord only knows what would happen if Richard Marsden had
> Yoshie as his Dean.
>
> Ian