Homeland Security Department Used to Track Texas Democrats

[lapsedmodernist]

so, in another interesting development it turns out that the Texas Republicans sicked the Homeland Security on the Runaway Democrats in order to find them.

No wonder about the deck of cards, then. I mean, Homeland Security exists to protect us from terrorists. Homeland security is not supposed to be used for domestic party interests. Well, the obvious conclusion to this very special syllogism from hell is--the Texas Democrats are terrorists! But of course!

I think between paint fumes and seeking periodic respite from paint fumes on the internet I am about to lose my mind. I don't know what's affecting me more, the fumes, or the news. I am going for a walk.

Comments

deja vu for some

[(Anonymous)]

the last time that the repubs controlled the WH, house, and senate? the mccarthy era.

-mjm

[warpsmith.livejournal.com]

Added ya back. Looking over your interests; you have some interesting stuff. I was just talking with a friend of mine tonight about Marcuse and his interesting pro-capitalism-because-it-leads-to-communism philosophy.

Re: deja vu for some

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

that's what i am saying, it's the un-50s. ashcroft is like the zombie McCarthy.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thanks :)

i think that's a somewhat stretched interpretation of marcuse's views--i mean, i can sort of see how you could get that from the text, but i think he is just a post-marxist of the late capitalist conditions, meaning he realizes that the marxist idea of capitalism collapsing under its own contradictions is not really applicable anymore after WWII, because the contradictions have been alleviated, rather than polarized, so the revolutionary locus is no longer economics in the way that it was during the industrial era, but the other dimensions of capitalism. sure, according to him capitalism could in theory lead to communism, but that's basic Marxist canon too, i don't think that means that he supports it, and it is probably of more concern to him than it was ever for Marx, since for Marx it was a necessary step in his transhistorical charted course, whereas for Marcuse it was a source of closing of the mind and any capacity for radical/revolutionary thought and ushered in the age of repressive desublimation in the masses.

or possibly you've read different texts from me. i'm mostly working off 1-D Man and Eros & Civilization. Reason & Revolition has its highlights, but it was written in 1941...