Re: [Pen-l] I want to know

[Ted Winslow <egwinslow@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carrol Cox wrote:

> The whole structure of u.s. life
> generates a generally positive response to capitalist common sense,  
> and
> the prticular structure of u.s. electoral politics guarantees that
> Congress & the President will be friendly -- in tune with -- one or  
> more
> particular sectors of capital.


Then there's no "rose in the cross of the present".

To treat the individual as necessarily passively going along with the  
"common sense" dominant in their context, i.e. as unable to develop  
"enlightenment" understood as the developed capacity to think for  
yourself and, on this basis, rationally criticize this "common sense",  
is, according to Marx, to make despotism an inescapable aspect of  
human existence.

Foucault, for whom (appropriating the bath water of Nietzsche and  
Heidegger) "being" is nothing but "force" and "human being" (as  
nothing but the "creature" of this "being") is nothing but "violence- 
doing" and "dominating", explicitly constructs history in this way.

"Humanity does not gradually progress from combat to combat until it  
arrives at universal reciprocity, where the rule of law finally  
replaces warfare; humanity installs each of its violences in a system  
of rules and thus proceeds from domination to domination."
<http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/m/jmh403/nietzsche_genealogy_history.htm 
>

Ted

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