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On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 21:53:16 +0000, Jeff Rubard wrote:

> To take up an oldie but goodie for the benefit of the "uninformed": I 
> was not here referring to the German Worker's Party founded by Anton 
> Drexler after World War I and transformed by its seventh member Hitler 
> into the NSDAP, but rather to the Kommunistische Arbeitungspartei 
> Deutschlands ("transliterally": "Germany's *Communistic* Labor Party"), 
> an even less well-known organization than that ephemeral one -- and I 

Upon further examination, this commonly told story about the DAP appears
to be untrue and the "Arbeitungspartei" the product of a fevered brain.
A thorough history of the Nazi movement (Dietrich Orlow,
U. Pittsburgh press, 1969) tells us of a fairly lengthy period of the
DAP's history before Hitler's entry, during which the organization was
alternately a reading group and an extra-parliamentary party obeying
complicated democratic rules of procedure, in other words a political
organization something like the Action Francaise. The KAPD
(*Arbeiterspartei* as well, and enthusiasts, even of Joseph Weydemeyer's
Proletarierbund, are invited to consider the "ramifications" of this)
actually did not, and opposed established trade unions and
social-democratic parties with the aid of the worker's council and its
counterpart "factory organization" -- claimed to be no "dark mystery", but
rather "organically born in the future".

I expect old hands at hashing the politics of logical work will have tired
of this, but frankly I take the upshot of this comparison in the context
of Gentzen's work is that the effective leftist political organization is
never quits with Lacan's *lamella*, an irreducible quiddity to goal-driven
behavior -- and that the diabolical appeal of Gentzen's logic, lacking
algebraic structure in its original form, for people seriously concerned
with hashing the connections between logical research and classic works of
philosophy such as have previously motivated political endeavors has
something to do with that exactly that element of reasoning which escapes
anything but asymptotic representation in a natural-deduction system.  But
really, thinking upon such matters can be too lax and the limits of
discursive representation in the *politeia* have in recent years been "too
flexible by half" (easy conversions between various signs -- even verbal
and nonverbal ones -- having been assumed to be readily possible)
prompting weaknesses in systems of representation such as secure the
blessings of democratic society for everyman.  But perhaps collapsing
these topics together is not what the heart of the matter calls for.

Jeff Rubard