ABSTRACT

The depletion of political concepts in favor of psychological and subjective ones is a by-product of the scramble for the remnants of human experience. Blank and vacant affirmations or condemnations of the women's movement, men, armed struggle, political and personal events serve as tools of interpersonal relations. The choice between instant subjectivity and instant slogans, between unorthodox individual needs and political orthodoxy is no choice at all. The political and personal praxis that is sustained by bad subjectivity and abstract slogans issues into the very prison that is the bourgeois world. Mistakes have been and will be made; but the efforts must remain continually alive to the tension between the "personal" and the "political" without abdicating either or reducing one to the other. The political and personal praxis that is sustained by bad subjectivity and abstract slogans issues into the very prison that is the bourgeois world.