As I've said, Rosa combines two ideological tendencies of the undead, Trotskyism and Wittgenstein, either of which will suck the life force out of you. This obsession with the formulas of dialectical materialism--to defend or attack it--is simply childish, as it's only a drop in the bucket of how dialectical analysis has been formulated and applied. Even the Soviet tradition had something to say in its critiques of neopositivism and irrationalism. But what about Lukacs, the Frankfurt School, the Yugoslav Praxis School, Ilyenkov, Tony Smith? Rosa is a small-minded jackass, for which we can thank both Trotskyism and analytical philosophy. And as for the interaction of analytical philosophy with Marxism, why waste time being bored shitless with "analytical Marxism"; one could turn to the Poznan School. Just to give one old example of how dialectical thought was interjected into the cloistered realm of Anglo-American social theory:
<http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/poznan5.html>Logic, Dialectics, Politics: Some Recent Controversies by Hayward R. Alker, Jr. (1982) Oh for the day when the last Stalinist is strangled with the entrails of the last Trotskyist. At 02:59 PM 8/14/2009, c b wrote: >Some might conclude that the relatively hard line adopted in my Essays >toward the alien-class origins of DM sits rather awkwardly with the >apparently uncritical acceptance of ideas drawn from Wittgenstein's >work --, an allegedly bourgeois philosopher and mystic himself. > >^^^^^ >CB: The class of the originators of DM , Marx and Engels, was petit >bourgeois and bourgeois ( smile) _______________________________________________ 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
