I am just finishing off an article on "Ralph Nader and the
Legacy of Revolt: Populism, Socialism, and Progressivism."
It takes a very different view from Louis Proyect's cobbling
of sour grapes and rightist propaganda, although it is critical
of Nader. My paper attempts to relate Nader's search
Those interested in the issue of Naturdialectik or what has
been known since Plekhanov as "Dialectical Materialism'
may want to read my paper on 'Marx's Ecology:
Synthesizing Dialectics of Praxis and Nature" at
http://www.egroups.com/files/red-green/
To read it, you'll have to subscribe to the
In my view, while Marx's work before the mid-1850s focuses
on a socio-historical theory of knowledge, which necessarily
removes Philosophy from its privileged place in a hierarchy of
knowledges, Marx's remarks in later life (see his conversations
with Alexei Voden and Liebknecht's reminiscences)
