Response to Verso’s post on the Castoriadis-Poulantzas debate
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By David Ames Curtis* A rather silly, one-sided, and inaccurate blog post from last September was recently brought to my attention: Are there really, still today, some radical people out there who would want to challenge Castoriadis’s analyses and assessments of what he called The French Ideology of the 1970s or his disdain for and denunciation of Euro-Communism and other progressivist types of political thought that fail to make direct democracy, in the workplace and in society at large, not to mention in political organizations, the starting point for serious debate and action? Even in this blog post, one can read (in a less-than-perfect translation) what Castoriadis had to say at the time: T
12:08 08/04/2020