It happens even in the intellectual realm, whereby somebody like Bataille is deemed by somebody named Wolin to be a “left fascist”. Well, for a start the term doesn’t make any sense, no matter how you dissect it. If you take Mike Ballard’s (husband’s) views into consideration, fascism is the ideology that the workers and corporations have identical interests. If you take a more psychological angle (mine), fascism is capitulation to authoritarianism, whereby the primal level of the emotions is collapsed into complete subservience to leadership, without any intervening rational attitude in between. In terms of neither of these definitions is Bataille a “fascist” (left or otherwise).
I dislike the anti-intellectual (name-calling) assault on ways of thinking that are not immediately accessible or easy to understand.
It's shocking that quite a number of intellectuals are themselves guilty of such anti-intellectual strategies.
STAY SANE AND SAVAGE Gender activism, intellectual shamanism
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