RE: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marx and essentialism

2006-02-07 Thread andie nachgeborenen
Political felinology, of course. Althusser, Hegel, and Marx were deficient in this. It is Charles' contribution to Marxist theory, where it goes by the name of the study of Brownian Movement. --- Phil Walden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reply to CB below: > > First of all, it makes > the transf

RE: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marx and essentialism

2006-02-07 Thread Phil Walden
Reply to CB below: First of all, it makes the transformation of capitalist society into socialist society look like the transformation of a kitten into a cat, when in reality it is much more like the transformation of a rat into a cat's dinner. We cannot look at capitalism and say "there, but for

RE: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marx and essentialism

2006-02-06 Thread Phil Walden
Jim, In my book Marx was not an essentialist. I wrote an article which appeared in the British (Marxist) journal 'New Interventions' in October 1993 arguing a Critical Realist critique of Scott Meikle's book 'Essentialism in the Thought of Karl Marx'. I used Bhaskar's concepts of (1) epistemic f