On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 02:56 PM, hari kumar wrote:

> 
> Tom - It seems to me that you have with this note, implicitly accepted the
> charge proffered by Charles.

Thanks for making your assumption clear, Hari. It is wrong. May I ask, though, 
is the reason it seemed to you I had "implicitly accepted the charge" because 
you accept the charge? I deleted my posts because they had been irredeemably 
sullied by Charles's malicious trolling and there was no point for them to 
remain there as the corpse occasion for whatever feeding of the troll was to 
ensue.

As for varieties of Marxism, I hestitate to call myself a Marxist because so 
many who call themselves that have a superficial or reified understanding of 
Marx's writings. That is not to say I have the "correct" interpretation of 
Marx's writings. THERE IS NO SUCH THING. There is too much variety, 
variability, volume, and value to Marx's writings for there to be a correct 
interpretation. I am not by any stretch of the imagination a "Frankfurter" any 
more than I am a Bolshevik, Menshevik, Revisionist or Orthodox Second 
Internationalist, not to mention the two hostile post-Leninist camps.

My position is that publication of the early manuscripts revealed more humanist 
depth to Marx than had previously be admitted and that publication of the 
Grundrisse revealed analytical depth that in some cases contradicted what had 
become traditional interpretations. But there are too many minds made up to 
clear the table and start afresh.


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