Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Hermeneutic Communism

This is the sort of philosophy I can get behind, one that takes it to the streets. Some excerpts of this review:

"While it is for Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek a 'book that everyone who thinks about radical politics needs like the air he or she breathes!' for Brazilian investigative Journalist Pepe Escobar it is a 'kick-ass manual of radical politics… Occupy Wall Street could also use'."


"Their call is a simple and powerful one: Let us abandon the fight for absolute truth, let us reject the terms within which the struggles are framed by those in power, let us embrace interpretation and thus collectively resist on our own terms. [...] If the weak fight by the oppressor’s rules, all kinds of courses of action are precluded and hence Hermeneutic Communism lays the fertile ground for practical action on the basis of concrete alternatives."

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