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In a post on November 1st last year, in one of my typical obnoxious ramblings, I said: “…quite a number of “Marxist academics”, like Jerry Levy who did not let Juan Iñigo Carrera (JIC) participate in this ultra-elite ‘Marxist economics’ (would that Marx had been an economist…) list OPE-L…” There were a couple of reasons for that, none of them an excuse. First, I had just read the threads from the old spoon lists where JIC had some arguments with Jerry Levy and others and it appeared to me that JIC had been excluded from OPE-L because of his “contentious” views. I was under the impression that the moderation of OPE-L was similar to Marxmail but it’s now been explained to me that this is not how OPE-L works and that it does not forbid “controversy” by a moderator, but that Jerry Levy is simply it’s coordinator. So, I would like to take that back and apologize, especially since that happened 15 years ago and is a problem long past. I got carried away… Secondly and on a more general note, I was exasperated by the fact that some of the accusations against JIC in those threads were little more than a vulgar complaint that JIC was just trying to emulate the Marx of the Grundrisse, which are still quite frequent. I, for one, have no anal obsession with Marx scholasticism, but it’s rather ridiculous that one should find in this list, more often than not, that just because something sounds similar or “orthodox” like Marx, it has no current relevance, no empirical support, or some such shibboleth. The question is not whether Marx said it, but whether whatever he said is an objective process that one can explain critically, and I’ve yet to see a ‘critical’ (i.e. objectively conceived) argument backed-up empirically to justify these dismissals. Anyway, don’t wanna make this too long, but if I may provide a very straightforward example of what I mean, here’s a translation of one of JIC’s writings http://www.cicpint.org/CICP%20English/Libros/Conocer/conocer.html -only the first 3 chapters are ready- regarding a critical approach to Marx’s work, which I had explained in more detail in this post http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2010-December/073510.html in new years' eve -so probably nobody saw it. I would very much like to hear your thoughts about it. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
