I'm sorry Paul, I don't understand: what is "economic determinism?"
Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
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On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Paul Zarembka wrote:
> Shawgi,
>
> Are you proposing economic determinism or what? What about Engels
> comment that he and Marx are partly to blame for over-emphasizing the
> economic at the expense of other factors? Also, where do Marx and Engels
> take the position you are ascribing to them? (I don't care about
> Stalin's opinion.)
>
> Paul
>
>
> On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, SHAWGI TELL wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > According to V.I. Lenin:
> >
> > Hitherto, sociologists had found it difficult
> > to distinguish in the complex network of social
> > phenomena which phenomena were important and which
> > unimportant (that is the root of subjectivism in
> > sociology) and had been unable to offer any
> > objective criterion for such a distinction.
> > ("What the 'Friends of the People' Are and How
> > they Fight the Social-Democrats," April 1894, in
> > THE ESSENTIALS OF LENIN, Vol I, London: Lawrence
> > & Wishart, 1947, 82-83)
> >
> > In my estimation, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin went to great lengths to
> > expose the anti-scientific character of pluralism, a petty-bourgeois trend.
> > They revealed the irrationalism and subjectivism inherent in
> > "multiple-factor 'theories'," always arguing for the scientific
> > reflection of the key, determinig influence. They gave all-sided
> > analyses a scientific character.
> >
> >
> > Shawgi Tell
> > University at Buffalo
> > Graduate School of Education
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
>
