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And do you think that revolution was a "product of correct ideas"? Of his pontification on dialectics? And his opening to the west in 1972? Correct idea? Correct practice? Correct dialectic? The Cultural Revolution? Correct idea? Correct practice? Correct dialectic? The Great Leap Forward? Correct idea? Correct practice? Correct dialectic? Uncritical support of Sukharno in Indonesia, disarming, more or less, communists in Indonesia prior to the Suharto coup? Correct idea? Corect practice? Correct dialectic? Consciousness being transformed into matter? A universe of change? Geez, I can't think of any more effective way to rob Marx's dialectic of its strength, its specificity in analyzing the concrete social relations of production, than by turning it into a metaphysical philosophy of universal change, which of course is a philosophy of the abstract incapable of dealing with the concrete-- or, short version, turning it into an ideology. In the meantime, FRB has released its Beige Book at: http://www.federalreserve.gov/fomc/beigebook/2010/20100414/default.htm My take: treading water while waiting for the levee to break. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Cod" <tomc...@gmail.com> ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
