Superb post, Russ!
HM posits a self-reflective humanity, for whom reality is the sensuous
activity through which said reflection and reality constantly transform each
other. Action, history and politics are all there.
Hope that means I'm allowed to party! I've a weekend straight out of 1977
coming at me - it's all Cascade Lager, The Saints, Buzzcocks and Pistols for
me till Sunday!
I'll reflect on any sensuous activity that might ensue when I get back from
Casualty.
To quote the bard: Get Pissed ... Destroy ...
Cheers,
Rob.
Russ had devastated the Lysenkoist hordes thus:
>So then this argument goes, man is part of matter and since man's
engagement
>with that matter is dialectical, matter itself is dialectical, hence we
>should all be dialectical materialists and be spending our time seeking out
>its dialectical laws. This at best repeats the folly of the mechanical
>materialists and at worst is a recipe for a quest for the holy grail. For,
>for our dialectical materialists it is not enough that Marx reveals the
>riddle of history they want him to reveal the riddle of existence. As this
>riddle unfolds, unfolding in sub-atomic matter as much as in twinklin'
>galaxies we can all sit back and let it unfold in our tiny corner of
matter.
>Forget action, forget history, forget politics, the old mole Dialectics is
>grubbing away. Let's forget it all and just party. Apart that is, that in
>their observations, our dialectical materialists, like Hegel himself, must
>always arrive post festum...
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