Brush him Off

For a guy who has been relegated to "the dustbin of history" his ideas still get alot of press. "Openly defying Marx's dictum in the famous eleventh thesis on Fuerbach: the task, Moore (Harvard history professor Benjamin Moore, died Oct at age 92) told us, was "to understand the world."

Same thesis,same conclusion, different tack.This time Slavoj Zizeck: "One is therefore tempted to turn Marx's eleventh thesis: the first task today is precisely not to succumb to the temptation to act, to directly intervene and change things...but to question the hegemonic ideological coordinates.

Similar logics with a similar point of departure (The Old German) but Moore the consumate liberal-democrat while Zizeck asks us to question even that project.

For the record, number XI is "the philosophers have only interpreted the world,in various ways; the point however is to change it."

I just saw that Venezuela booted a US military attache for suspected spying, so US retaliated and sent a junior ambassador home. This is getting interesting. I leave for Caracas on the fifteenth.