How do you mean self-institutionalising?
Just that most Marxists seem to agree that the development of a class for
itself would have to occur outside extant institutions. The theory being
that those extant institutions (including unions) are complicit in the
perpetuation of capitalist
Hi Rob,
Just that most Marxists seem to agree that the development of a class for
itself would have to occur outside extant institutions. The theory being
that those extant institutions (including unions) are complicit in the
perpetuation of capitalist hegemony, and that any policy to advance
Jim Devine wrote:
At 12:17 AM 6/28/00 +1000, you wrote:
That leaves what I take to be the true dialectician, who is never wrong,
because s/he's always content with the useless (by natural scientific
standards of proof and prediction).
a dialectician might never be wrong in terms of
G'day all,
Unlike Justin, I was actually enjoying his run-in with Jim (and Rod's
apposite intervention) - it put me in mind of Heilbroner's *The Nature and
Logic of Capitalism* and one of a hundred quotes therefrom which seem
appropriate here:
"It seems hardly necessary to state again the
Rob said:
Unlike Justin, I was actually enjoying his run-in with Jim (and Rod's
apposite intervention) . . .
Well, someone should, I guess.
Justin's impatience with debates about methodology might be the product of
living in an intellectual environment where one finds oneself confonted
Justin wrote:
Jim, although his own work is more or less pure analytical Marxism as I
conceive it, is allergic to the particular prejudices and approaches of
the former AMs.
Je ne suis pas un Marxiste analytique. (I'm sorry if my grammar is bad.
It's been more than 30 years since high school
At 12:17 AM 6/28/00 +1000, you wrote:
That leaves what I take to be the true dialectician, who is never wrong,
because s/he's always content with the useless (by natural scientific
standards of proof and prediction).
a dialectician might never be wrong in terms of abstract theory, but when
that
Or is the central question to do with that self-institutionalising
dissenting movement? Human agency - the self-conscious drive to become the
subject of our history, if you like. I have no idea why these movements pop
up when they do - and why they don't when they don't. Neither the
