Louis Proyect posted the following announcement on his Marxmail list concerning the latest issue of the journal Cultural Logic. I found the article by Hristos Verikukis "Popper's Double Standard of Scientificity in Criticizing Marxism ," to be quite interesting. Verikukis basically convicts Popper of having been inconsistent in the way he defined and applied his concept of falsifiability as a criterion for demarcating science from non-science. Popper, according to Verikukis, was much stricter about defining falsifiability when applying to Marxism (which Popper claimed was not falsifiable and hence, not science) than he was when applying to his own situationalist brand of social science, where he embraced what he called the Principle of Rationality, which he variously described as being not falsifiable, or was falsified but still in some sense true. Anyway, I think that Verikukis's article dovetails with the criticisms that other writers like Cornell philosopher Richard W. Miller have made of Popper's critique of Marxism.
http://clogic.eserver.org/2007/Verikukis.pdf ------------------------------- http://clogic.eserver.org/2007/2007.html Tenth-Anniversary Issue (The current issue files are in pdf format. Click below to download the latest version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader.) Articles (Names listed alphbetically) Roland Boer "Socialism, Christianity, and Rosa Luxemborg" Philip Bounds "George Orwell and the Dialogue with English Marxism" Paula Cerni "The Age of Consumer Capitalism" Stephen C. Ferguson II "Social Contract as Bourgeois Ideology" Grover Furr and Vladimir Bobrov "Nicolai Bukharin's First Statement of Confession in the Lubianka" Catherine Gouge "'Amibivalent Technologies' of American Citizenship" Bruno Gulli "Early Plenitude: An Essay on Sovereignty and Labor" Katerina Kolozova "The Project of Non-Marxism: Arguing for 'Monstrously' Radical Concepts" John Maerhofer "Aimé Céasare and the Crisis of Aesthetic and Political Vangardism " Michael Mikulak "Cross-pollinating Marxism and Deep Ecology: Towards a Post-humanist Eco-humanism" Terence Patrick Murphy "From Alignment to Commitment: The Early Work of James Kelman" Ronald Paul ""To turn the whole world upside-down': Women and Revolution in The Non-Stop Connolly Show " Philip Tonner "Freud, Bentham: Panopticism and the Super-Ego" Hristos Verikukis "Popper's Double Standard of Scientificity in Criticizing Marxism " Reviews Ivan Cañadas Christos Tsiolkas, Dead Europe David Hursh Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine and Peter McLaren and Nathalia Jaramillo, Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire Howard Pflanzer Robert Roth, Health Proxy Louis Proyect Amazing Grace Charlie Samuya Veric, Tamara Powell, and John Streamas E. San Juan, Jr., Balikbayang Mahal Poetry Christopher Barnes Poems Dave Bruzina "Boom" and "The Committee Dissolves" Iftekhar Sayeed Poems George Snedeker "The History Lesson" and Other Poems Contributors ____________________________________________________________ Click to book your dream cruise. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3nL6YUeBPZAIuI1yXxoKuJ5StDtktH1OsawsJnwwmbvS1doF/ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
