{"id":9416,"date":"2012-10-03T19:28:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T00:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=9416"},"modified":"2012-10-12T06:02:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T11:02:33","slug":"9416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/10\/03\/9416\/","title":{"rendered":"property is theft and the imminent negation of a notion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u017di\u017eek in Russia August 21, 2012<\/a> Also take a look in \u017di\u017eek’s Less than Nothing<\/em> starting on page 295<\/p>\n

Here is another link within<\/a><\/p>\n

Hegel’s Coincidence of the Opposites:<\/p>\n

quote from GK Chesterton, from Orthodoxy<\/em> [Install a special corps of policemen, policemen who are also philosophers]\u00a0 Philosophical policmen discover fro a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed. \u00a0 Karl Popper, Levinas, Adorno would agree with this.\u00a0 The philosophical notion of totality founds and grounds the notion to political totalitarianism.\u00a0 \u017e thinks this is crazy.\u00a0 Popper reads a book of Plato’s Dialogues that a Totalitarian crime will be committed in the future.<\/p>\n

Chesterton is here almost Hegelian.\u00a0 He sees clearly that an ordinary criminal is much more moral than a radical philosopher.\u00a0 Take a thief and compare him to a radical revolutionary.\u00a0 A thief still respects property. He just wants to change it a little bit, you have it I want to have it.\u00a0 While a philosopher says NO property.\u00a0 A bigamist wants 2 wives and keep family intact.\u00a0 Chesterton is not radical enough. Ordinary crime remains essentially moral, this is the limit of Chesterton.\u00a0 Ordinary crime is essentially moral.\u00a0\u00a0 What he doesn’t see is that the opposite also holds: Morality is also essentially criminal<\/strong>.\u00a0 And this is what Hegel sees.<\/p>\n

When Hegel develops in his Phil of Right<\/em>. The dialectic of law: legal order and its criminal transgression, he is not only saying that crime is part of the dialectical movement of law, law negated in crime and then the negation of the negation punishment and the rule of law is established.\u00a0 What Hegel clearly implies is that UNIVERSAL law is crime elevated to the ABSOLUTE.\u00a0 That the difference between law and crime is that law is crime in opposition to other crimes, is crime elevated to universality.\u00a0 A nice example of this is Proudhon who said PROPERTY IS THEFT.\u00a0 In our ordinary approach theft violates property, and external negation of property, you have\u00a0 a purse, I take it from you, that is theft.\u00a0\u00a0 But for Proudhon there is a dimension of theft inscribed into the very core of property as such.\u00a0 Property as such already has a dimension of theft.\u00a0 This reversal from an external negation of a notion, to a notion that is its own violation is a Hegelian move.<\/p>\n

From LTN<\/strong><\/em>: This is how the Christian \u201csupplement\u201d to the Book should be conceived: as a properly Hegelian \u201cnegation of negation,\u201d which resides in the decisive shift from the distortion of a notion<\/em> to a distortion constitutive of this notion<\/em>, that is, to this notion as a distortion-in-itself. Recall again Proudhon\u2019s dialectical motto \u201cproperty is theft\u201d: the \u201cnegation of negation\u201d is here the shift from theft as a distortion (\u201cnegation,\u201d violation) of property to the dimension of theft inscribed into the very notion of property (nobody has the right to fully own the means of production; they are by nature inherently collective, so every claim \u201cthis is mine\u201d is illegitimate).<\/p>\n

It’s not enough to say don’t commit adultery sleep only with your wife.\u00a0 If you sleep with your wife but don’t love her that is worse than adultery.\u00a0 Adultery is just an external negation of marriage.\u00a0 But if you don’t love your wife, you ruin from within the very concept of marriage<\/span>. This is a much stronger destruction of the very concept of marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not enough to say “don’t steal what belongs to another”\u00a0 Even if you have legally something more needed by others, it is worse than stealing, it is already a crime.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the Hegelian radical move is this move from the external negation of a notion (property, marriage) to the imminent negation that is already within the notion itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pussy Riot has the full right to say “What are we as a modest external provocation to the law compared to the extreme provocation which is today’s law and order in Russia.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u017di\u017eek in Russia August 21, 2012 Also take a look in \u017di\u017eek’s Less than Nothing starting on page 295 Here is another link within Hegel’s Coincidence of the Opposites: quote from GK Chesterton, from Orthodoxy [Install a special corps of policemen, policemen who are also philosophers]\u00a0 Philosophical policmen discover fro a book of sonnets that … Continue reading “property is theft and the imminent negation of a notion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hegel","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9416"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9418,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416\/revisions\/9418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}