Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:47:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Avant-Garde ???



On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Ostrow/Kaneda wrote:

> >> >A revolutionary elitism!
> >> >
> >> >Like other structuralists, you perhaps, never accept that ordinary people
> >> >could make their own history without leadership from the intellectual
> >> >vanguard.
> >> >
> >>
> >> As a Leninist  all that I can believe is that ordinary people as you call
> >> them (what a derrogatory term)  are quite capable of forming an
> >> intelligensia...
> >
> >Far from expressing radical concepts of freedom, the rhetoric of the
> >intelligensia now contains a deep desire for ideological control and
> >authoritarianism in its most repressive form.
> >
> Sterotyping -- name names-- identify this Kabal -- be  a good reporter
> answer the questions-- who what when where and how -- otherwise thes are
> empty assertions and paranoid projections.


Will _you_ promise to always be my straw-man Saul? 

Here's the rest of my response that you apparently breezed-by: 

All theories celebrating individual and collective subjectivity are
suspect for the Structuralist because they assume that the mass of the
population could possess some form of 'free will.' For only the very most
special of "revolutionaries" could be capable of freeing themselves from
mass ideological domination and have the right to lead the masses.

Structuralism (the terminus of the absurd), is the ultimate product of
self-alienating reason -- 'reflecting' the common sense of the times -- in
which all human projects, endeavors, and even culture itself, appear to
stand _outside_ ordinary people, to stand _against_ ordinary people,
objective things, as the 'Other' which moves ordinary people around as
things. 



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