On 6/13/06, Paul Zarembka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Keep in mind that the RESEARCH is quite open to marxism that is NOT structuralist. It is even open to non-marxist work but which is consistent with class analysis -- as the homepage says.
Yes, I knew that. After all, the two articles I published in RESEARCH weren't structuralist in their Marxism.
Yes, I myself took and take Althusser seriously, but I don't define myself around Althusserian structuralism (perhaps that was accurate a decade or two ago).
I like the Althusserians as a first step. But "structures" represent the temporary balance of conflicts between people of different classes and other groups. They do not simply limit and shape individual consciousnesses and actions. They also are the effect of individual consciousnesses put into action. -- Jim Devine / "Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliché, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
