Re: Moscow’s social democracy
Seth Ackerman wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote:
The parent/child thing of yesterday was an allusion to the aborted conversation about Judith Bulter’s Psychic Life of Power that almost began this list: if the human subject is founded in subjection, that subject may come to fear the loss of authority as threatening psychic cohesion. We are, of course, on alert not to produce a little authoritarian, but some degree of coercion comes with the territory. I think the idea that undergirds a lot of anarchist thought - not just Bookchin but Chomsky, who’s said as much - that humans are hard-wired for freedom (or are born free but are everywhere in chains, as some old Froggie put it) is wishful thinking.
Yeah, but the urge to rebel against the parent-figure seems to be hardwired too.
It’s just a temporary thing though - and a lot less prominent now than when I was a youth. And as the Frankfurt boys argue, rebellion isn’t revolution; rebellion just flames out.
Doug