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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In a message dated Thu, 14 Feb 2002 7:39:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, Alan Cibils
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
>
>
> Thi
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,
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
>
>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
Alan Cibils wrote:
>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 exclus
I wrote:
> >Of course, just because "everyone does it" doesn't make it right.
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.<
Yes. But since Marx
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
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My impression is that attitudes of sectarianism, dogmatism, and verticalism
occur in all parts of the multidimensional political space. Ayn Rand's
"libertarian" followers and Doug Henwood's old group the (Yale University)
Party of the Right were involved in these, to name two examples.
(Self-style
