Re: Necessity of Preaching to the (hidden) Choir, Re: Re: lighten up

[Rob Schaap <bantam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

G'day Carrol,

> "Something bigger than wisdom" is mere chatter.

Well, as your post is such a nice one, I shan't take exception to your rather
ungenerous reading of some admittedly vague chatter.  I was actually alluding
to that stuff Marx says happens behind our backs under capitalism, not human
essence at all.  My humanism is of a more modestly practical (and less
mystical) variety.  But I'm with you on the varied theoretical perspectives
thing in a big way.

Cheers,
Rob.

> (Probably humanist Rob will ascribe it to some sort of human essence;
> over on lbo several will ascribe it to the id or the ego or something,
> but these are merely 20th century variations on religion and of no
> theoretical interest. That those who believe in these myths can
> nevertheless have the perceptions Rob shows above exhibits, among
> other
> things, that anti-capitalist practice can absorb the most varied
> theoretical perspectives.)
>
> Carrol