Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Economics and Politics: The State and Revolution (ESSAY)...

>> 1.)The failure of the US communist movement must be criticized and severly . . . the US communists must also make a self-criticism of our failures as a movement. 2.) There is no amount of excuses that can justifify our failure to our responsibilities and duties as Marxist-Leninists who ar

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

Nice work! That's just it. Bakhurst confuses the ideal as objectification of practice in consciousness with the material artefact it images. In truth, he also managed to confuse me as well. Anyway the ideal as objectification of practice is just that imaged or imagined object that Marx descri

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

Hi Victor, Interestingly, footnote one in a paper by Lantolf and Thorne that is getting discussed on the xmca list - the paper is at Introduction, in Sociocultural Theory and the Genesis of Second Language Development -