From: jkschw1 at yahoo.com
To: marxist philosophy marxistphilosophy at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [marxistphilosophy] G.A. Cohen Goes Home
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 17:57:20 +
Unless I missed it the death the other day of Jerry Cohen attracted no
comment on a list devoted to Marxist philosophy. I
farmela...@juno.com
Above all, I found much of *Lire Capital* critically vague. It
is perhaps a matter for regret that logical positivism, with its
insistence on precision of intellectual commitment, never
caught on in Paris. Anglophone philosophy left logical positivism
behind long ago, but it
CB wrote:
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Seems likely that the Canadian CP's materialism was dialectical,
not mechanical. Stages of history or mode of production analysis
denigratingly labelled stagist seems to be a Trotskyist theoretical
shortcoming.
Also, history in the Soviet Union and China seem to
