Advisory Board Resignation Letter

Advisory Board Resignation Letter September 1, 1996 To The Editorial Board DEMOCRACY AND NATURE It is with deep regret that I am withdrawing today from the International Advisory Board of DEMOCRACY AND NATURE.. 8 of DEMOCRACY AND NATURE, however, has totally divested me of my hope of avoiding a protracted--and given my advanced age and poor health, perhaps lifelong--controversy with Takis over postmodernism and Castoriadian "imaginaries" (and the highly subjectivist, ahistorical, relativist, and politically social-democratic implications of Castoriadis s theorizing), not to speak of Kuhnian paradigm theory, dialectics, and the conventional wisdom of Anglo-American academic "discourse" which appears in his articles.. (I now strongly prefer the word "libertarian" over "confederal" municipalism because "libertarian" has a revolutionary political content, rather than merely a structural and logistical one.) His current advocacy of a personal voucher system and an "artificial market " (whatever happened to a libertarian-communist moral economy ), and his notion that libertarian municipalism could somehow creep up on the bourgeoisie and erode the power of the state (on pages 93-94), are highly disturbing to me..