Jim Farmelant :
I remember the case of economist, Glenn Loury
(http://www.bu.edu/irsd/loury/lourybio.htm)
(http://www.pkarchive.org/economy/loury.html). Almost
twenty years ago, he was one of the Republican right's favorite
black economists. He became famous for his
denunciations of affirmative
I thought similarly. What about Bhakar , before he became idealist ? Is that
the way to spell it ? I was on a list. It sounded like sort of dialectical
materialism to me, but the people interested in it didn't cop to that. There
were a whole lot of people interested in it.
CB
Ralph Dumain
Jim Farmelant :
As far as I can tell the term dialectical materialism was first
coined by the German worker Josef Dietzgen, who had independently
arrived at political and philosophical views that were akin
to those of Marx and Engels. Plekhanov is usually credited
This Wikipedia article is quite remarkable, I think at first glance. It's
the sort of material suitable for Marx Myths and Legends, to which it
links. Especially noteworthy are the sections Disclaimers
and Historical materialism as doctrine.
I'm sure there are many more marxist and
That Esotonian fellow whose
name I can't remember
also wrote a book on what remains of historical
materialism after a
thorough analytical going-over.
Yewah, I have that book, forget the author's name. So
did Erik Wright, Andrew Levine, and Elliot Sobor,
Reconstructing Marxism, very
Eero Loone.
On Jan 18, 2006, at 6:35 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
That Esotonian fellow whose
name I can't remember
also wrote a book on what remains of historical
materialism after a
thorough analytical going-over.
Yewah, I have that book, forget the author's name. So
did Erik Wright,
Taylor Branch, the civil rights historian, is a white man. I have no idea
what his politics are, but his rap on Meet the Press was weird: he linked
the civil rights movement which he characterized as a struggle for
responsible citizenship to the struggle for democracy in Iraq. What on
earth
One important idea of Bhaskar's was about what he called the
intransitive and transitive dimensions of reality. This was akin to
Althusser's idea of the real object and the thought object, but
Bhaskar's version is better in my view because it is more accurate.
Althusser's version still gives too
At 05:52 PM 1/18/2006 +, Phil Walden wrote:
One important idea of Bhaskar's was about what he called the
intransitive and transitive dimensions of reality. This was akin to
Althusser's idea of the real object and the thought object, but
Bhaskar's version is better in my view because it is
Phil Walden
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For Marxists, the importance of Bhaskar's distinction above is that
it foregrounds the importance of ontology. In my view Marxism had got into
a near-terminal crisis because the Trotskyist groups were focussing almost
exclusively on trying to
Reply to CB below at the end:
For Marxists, the importance of Bhaskar's distinction above is that
it foregrounds the importance of ontology. In my view Marxism had got
into
a near-terminal crisis because the Trotskyist groups were focussing
almost
exclusively on trying to realise their
At 11:12 PM 1/18/2006 +, Phil Walden wrote:
PW: Bhaskar defines the epistemic fallacy as the analysis or definition
of statements about being in terms of statements about our knowledge (of
being). For example, if somebody says that capitalism must give way to
socialism because
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