Peter Croce Project

The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.

The idea of a neutral science is a fiction, and an interested fiction, which enables one to pass as scientific a neutralized and euphemized form of the dominant representation of the social world…. By uncovering the social mechanisms which ensure the maintenance of the established order and whose properly symbolic efficacy rests on the misconception of their logic and effects, social science necessarily takes sides in political struggle.

[T]he whole point of being intellectual today is to be more than an expert. Experts are doing what? They are solving problems formulated by others. You know, if a politician comes to you, ‘Fuck it! Cars are burning! Tell me what’s the psychological mechanism, how do we dominate it?’ No, an intellectual asks a totally different question: ‘What are the roots? Is the system guilty?’ An intellectual, before answering a question, changes the question. He starts with, ‘But is this the right way to formulate the question?’