Politics is living with tension rather than postponing criticism

Evidence

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. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 275

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• SEED: Angle: a working definition of anti-vanguard politics — refusing the postponement of criticism until after revolution, in favor of continuous contention.

Related

• Postponing criticism until after revolution is a politics Hall refuses (similarity 0.89)
• Culture and politics both rest on inescapable critical judgement and division. (similarity 0.79)
• Intellectual work as political practice means living with tensions, not resolving them. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Cultural Studies must hold textuality and politics in permanent unresolved tension #expands (0.80)