Collective strategic consciousness is necessarily self-alienating.

Evidence

The task of the “consciousness” of class or collectivity within a social field of exploitation and domination is thus necessarily self-alienating. … In this spirit of “maintain and cause to cease,” we would rewrite “inversive” in the passage from EAP as “displacing.” — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1764

Categorization

  • XREF: The ‘maintain and cause to cease’ Aufheben reading parallels the double movement of genealogy in Foucault’s race-struggle lectures. — connects to: Class consciousness is a self-destroying strategic artifice, not an inalienable identity. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1763; The for-itself becomes itself only by assuming its alienated being-for-others — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 777; Self-determination becomes reachable only through self-alienating strategic collectivity. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1766 (+1 more)

Broader Connections