Political practice is inseparable from sustained critical debate, never postponed action.

Evidence

Let me say, secondly, I agree that this is not a question of theoretical practice alone, far from it. I think that just as we have to understand politics as a language we have to understand politics as living with the tension. The notion of a political practice where criticism is postponed until the day after the barricades precisely defines the politics which I always refused. And if you don’t go that way you go into politics of contention, of continuous argument, of continuous debate. Because what is at stake really matters. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 275

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The economy can never act detached from political and ideological practices.; Closing a legal debate is a distinct performance, not discursive failure — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 1231; Critical thinking opens fixed political programs to inspection without discarding them — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 261
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The economy can never act detached from political and ideological practices.; Closing a legal debate is a distinct performance, not discursive failure — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 1231; Critical thinking opens fixed political programs to inspection without discarding them — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 261

Broader Connections

• Closing a legal debate is a distinct performance, not discursive failure #complicates (0.82) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1231