| | Actually, Marx was not on the list. Fault him as we can and do, his work was an extension of the Enlightenment, an attempt at a testable explanation of a complex event. Don't ask me to defend him beyond that, but there are worse, closer to home. The post-modernists, Derrida and Rorty, make Marx seem realistic and rational.
Marx asks: Why do people hate their jobs? Where do social classes originate? What perpetuates social class? What would it take to let people like their work?
Derrida says: "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
Derrida quotes Rousseau as saying that 'the tyranny of writing goes even further. By imposing itself upon the masses, spelling influences and modifies language'
Thus, as Derrida says, 'the graphic image is not seen; and the acoustic image is not heard'. There is, rather, the perception of differences.
Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes."
"The future can only be anticipated in the form of an absolute danger. It is that which breaks absolutely with constituted normality and can only be proclaimed, presented, as a sort of monstrosity."
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