原文恕刪，試譯如下： Peter McLaren: Yes, that would be a very fair description. 彼得麥克羅林：沒錯，就是這樣。 I am not alone, clearly, in this struggle. There are others within universities who work internationally toward the same goal. 當然，這場戰爭中，吾道不孤。在各大學裡，有些人跨國攜手，朝著 同樣的目標邁進。 But it is also fair to say that in the United States there are very few of us in the field of education and the future in this regard looks irrepressibly bleak. 不過，持平而論，美國教育界中，像我們這樣的人屈指可數。展望未 來，在這方面，前途多艱。 Well, let me put it this way. To their ongoing credit, there are those who are quite capable of engaging in a rigorous analysis of mounting sophisticated and nuanced attacks on the scoundrels and hypocrites of the Bush administration, the gangster capitalists and political opportunists, the feckless cabal of Christian-right "profamily activists" who exercise their racism by warning about the coming "demographic winter" facing the United States unless the white population produce enough babies to achieve "replacement-level fertility," and on the evangelical economic zealots who call out for a renewed assault on the poor through neoliberal economic, political, and social directives and principles. 我這樣說好了。有人抨擊布希政府、以及與黑幫無異的資本家、還有 那些政治投機份子，說他們無賴、偽善。而某些基督教右派的反墮胎 人士，警告我們說，除非白人能夠努力生育而達成「替代生育率」， 否則美國即將面臨「人口的寒冬」，對此有人譴責這批人圖謀不軌， 但終將徒勞無功。至於某些福音經濟的狂熱支持者，則透過新自由主 義的經濟、政治、社會規範與原則，對於窮人發動了新一波的攻擊， 同樣也引發了口誅筆伐。值得稱讚的是，有一群人，對於這些日益增 加，錯綜複雜、差別微妙的種種攻擊非難，能夠進行鞭辟入裡的分析 。 But these critics of the wretched havoc wrought by neoliberalism do not at the same time identify an alternative---at least one that is couched beyond very safe and I would say largely empty liberal pluralist principles. 不過，在對新自由主義搞出的悲慘浩劫大加撻伐之際，這群評論者卻 沒能看出一條可行之道。在那些四平八穩，甚至我要說是大多空洞無 義的自由多元原則的背後，就至少有這麼一條路。 Until about the mid-1990s, I found myself in the same dilemma. For me, the struggle was focused on democratizing the public sphere. But since that time I have been a staunch advocate of education as a means to further socialism, that is, to bring about a world outside capital's valorization process or, put another way, outside labor's value form. I have described capitalism and democracy as two thieves planning a joint robbery and simultaneously attempting to steal the spoils from each other. 九零年代中期以前，我自己也曾同樣進退失據。我本認為努力的重點 應在於使民主植根於公共領域。之後，我卻堅信教育才是推動社會主 義的良方。也就是說，要創造出一個資本穩定物價程序之外的世界， 或者說是勞工價值型態之外的世界。我一向把資本主義與民主政治比 喻為兩個賊，沆瀣一氣，但又想黑吃黑。 --

※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.112.23.25