Saturday, September 20, 2014

American Exceptionalism, Counter-Example, Experiment

Put more strongly and more precisely, what Lovestone characterizes as the American 'exception' to traditional Marxist analysis amounts to a counter-example to the entailed concept of History, and, hence, a disproof of it.  Furthermore, in America's past is the potential basis for an alternative concept of History--Washington's description of it as an "experiment", which could apply to both the revolt against the British, and the choice of the new construction as a Democracy, rather than as a Monarchy.  Experimental Reason recognizes and incorporates what is suppressed in Dialectal Reason as inevitable--the uncertainty of any transition from one set of conditions to another.  But, Reactionary-ism is not exclusive to Marxism, as the continued American Capitalist insistence on the 'intentions of the Founding Fathers', that conveniently ignores their Experimentalism, demonstrates.

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