Re: Nietzsche
On Jun 29, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
I’ll come back to this sometime in the next year (I hope), but let state without much defense or explanation now a tentative response: A class analysis which incorporates psychology can only lead to identity politics in their most useless form; it transforms class from a social relation to a mechanical and static conditon which shapes individual psychologies. This won’t do — but I think it is a place to start
from.
Why is individual psychology static, and why is it not deeply
connected to social relations? Experiences in class society help
shape who you are. People can change in changing circumstances, and
their own insights can change the way they act, which can change
social relations. There’s nothing mechanical about it, since it can
be very fluid and often unpredictable. If anything, your agentless
view of politics and history is what’s static and mechanical; shit
just happens, and there’s nothing we can do about it.
Doug