At 2/13/2002, you wrote:
Alan,
3) Verticalism
Doyle
This begs the question of how a mass organization can truly reflect the
views of the masses.
This is indeed a key question. In my view, a top-down organization is not
very likely to reflect the views of the masses. As I see it, these
In a message dated Thu, 14 Feb 2002 7:39:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, Alan Cibils
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At 2/13/2002, you wrote:
Alan,
3) Verticalism
Doyle
This begs the question of how a mass organization can truly reflect the
views of the masses.
This is indeed a key
I wrote: ... But since Marx was very much one who engaged in ruthless
criticism of all existing and major followers such as Luxemburg embraced
doubt all, dogmatism isn't a necessary component of Marxism.
Justin Schwartz writes:Never said it was. Religion isn't necessarily
dogmatic.
Alan implied
I said:
and Lukacs, who coined the concept of Marxism as method, didn't believe
it.
Jim asked:
[you can read his mind?]
No, but I read the book.
jks
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Having had the misfortune of growing up in a fundamentalist evangelical
household (parents belonged to different sects, however), and having
observed from the outside the behaviour of the way too many
marxist-flavored left grouplets here in Argentina, Justin's remarks about
Marxism and
At 2/13/2002, Jim Devine wrote:
Of course, just because everyone does it doesn't make it right.
Or, just because everyone does it doesn't deny Justin's view of marxism as
religion. It would indicate that the likeness of political beliefs to
religion is not exclusive of marxism.
Alan
Alan writes:
Or, just because everyone does it doesn't deny Justin's view of marxism
as
religion. It would indicate that the likeness of political beliefs to
religion is not exclusive of marxism.
Of course people can be religious about all sorts of political beliefs. Some
religious
Greetings Economists,
JKS has set off a chorus of Marxism is religion. Alan comparisons of
Religious persons, and Christians perpetuates a problem with understanding
what is going on with organizing Marxist groups by comparing them to a
religion. While Alan's comments are not meant to be in
Comments after sections.:
My point is much simply: in the past, from, say, the late 1880s to the
eatrly 1970s, Marxism was actually a sort of secular religion of millions
of
ordinary people, and for part of that period, the civil religion of a good
many states. This is no longer true,
Greetings Economists,
JKS responded to my remarks at length. I would like to make clear that
my aim is to honor JKS, and criticize the thought I see in his remarks. I
believe real brain work emerges from the exchange between people which is
useable in some practical sense by any who read
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