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
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 advanc
>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 hegemony
>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
>hideo
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
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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 schoo
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 w
