Well, I don't know if this is within the expected time range, but neither the methods, nor the substance, nor importance of the work done by Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Preobrazhensky, WEB DuBois, CLR James, etc. etc. is dead.
Nor is any of their work an ideology. The value of the method and the work is its intimate, essential relation with the concrete; the actual economic, social determinants of capitalism development/destruction. Such work can be (mis)shaped into an ideology, but only by disassociating the actual method and content of the analysis from social reality, i.e duplicating the fetishism of capitalism, and turning Marx or Lenin into a commodity. When specific historical contexts are ignored and economic determinants are unexplored you get a sort of mirrored reproduction of capital, which is nothing but the alienation of labor, turning Marx on his head. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Doss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Jun 24, 2004 10:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] EMH Here, all you have to say is ______ and ______ pulls the flamethrower out of the closet. Doug --- Marxism-Leninism is a dead ideology! I count the seconds... :)
