Phil Walden
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For Marxists, the importance of Bhaskar's distinction above is that
it foregrounds the importance of ontology. In my view Marxism had got into
a near-terminal crisis because the Trotskyist groups were focussing almost
exclusively on trying to realise their beyond-question theory (i.e. working
at the level of epistemology as an identity-theory) whereas what they needed
to be doing was trying to cognize changes in the nature of world capitalism
(i.e. working at the level of ontology).The groups were thus committing an
example of what Bhaskar calls the "epistemic fallacy".
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CB: Do you mind elaborating on this ? Now that you mention it, I recall the
"epistemic fallacy" idea.
Is Bhaskar for ending capitalism and building socialism ?
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