You're absolutely correct in your interpretation, Jerry. Cheers, Sid PS -- what are you doing to change the world? > > D Shniad wrote: > > > This is true, ironically (perhaps especially true) of > > many Marxist intellectuals, despite Marx's famous thesis on Feuerbach > > about the need to stop analyzing and start changing the world. > > The much-quoted XI "Theses on Fuerbach" ["The philosophers have only > *interpreted* the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to > *change* it"] can not be interpreted as a call to "stop analyzing the > world." Such an interpretation would not fit well into either Marx's > perspective on praxis or his own life's work. It would be more > reasonable, and in keeping with Marx's other writings and actions, to say > that he held that one should *both* analyze and change the world. > > Jerry > >
