On 12/4/06, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Funny, though, how so many people have to take a position on it. Amazing that such a supposedly antique and inappropriate doctrine or system or movement could still provoke so much controversy.
Not inapproriate doctrine or system. Just incomplete doctrine or system. as any economist that's functional in the real world knows. Marx's works have a piece of the puzzle, not the whole thing, and not the solution... nor, to the best of my limited knowledge, did he claim any of those attributes What's *wrong* is the socio-pyschology of the (marxist) masses. Someone indirectly suggested earlier, but I'm not at my computer and can't look up the posting, that marxists and m-l organizations 'help-by-presence'' social causes more than having any 'issue and cause' of their own. (A total paraphrase) Sure, helping-by-presence... so does everyone else involved... without the seemingly ulterior motives, or oppotrunistic and parasitic tendencies being quite as prevalent, although I must admit that I've never charted it against any standard. Leigh
