SLSL Intro: poorly written?

[Richard Fiero]

tyro tortoise wrote:
>  . . .
>Why are we stuck on this passage?
>It's an interesting passage. The debate about it here
>has been interesting too. But, like the passage about
>race and power, it doesn't quite fit in this
>paragraph. It's also an example of poor writing.
>
>What is this comment about the "new left" doing in
>this paragraph? It's confusing.
>  . . .

The reader is free to suppose any number of things on reading 
of class, race and the "failure of the college kids and 
blue-collar workers to get together politically" in the 
Introduction. Those things may be the official, societal views 
or their converse.

Just as the entity Terrance went on vacation, he/she/it sent a 
volley of cautionary mechanism posts apparently as a lead-in to 
SL. That misdirection points in a useful direction which may be 
called "alienation." The Frankfurt School is in part an attempt 
to marry two dead guys - Marx and Freud. Marx used the term 
"alienation" quite often but meant labor that alienates the 
worker from his productive efforts. The mechanism mentioned in 
the "Poverty of Philosophy" is not central to the issues then 
at hand and although Terrance possibly wished to connect 
mechanism with alienation, this doesn't really happen until 
about the 1960's with the Frankfurt School's long-standing 
efforts. Freud's concept of alienation is that it might be man's normal state.

"HERBERT MARCUSE" by Douglas Kellner
http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell12.htm
"Erich Fromm, Feminism, and the Frankfurt School"
http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell8.htm

"The Frankfurt School - Introduction"
http://home.cwru.edu/~ngb2/Pages/Intro.html