Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Forward from Rosa Lichtenstein on Analytic Marxism

2009-08-14 Thread Ralph Dumain
As I've said, Rosa combines two ideological tendencies of the undead, Trotskyism and Wittgenstein, either of which will suck the life force out of you. This obsession with the formulas of dialectical materialism--to defend or attack it--is simply childish, as it's only a drop in the bucket of h

[Marxism-Thaxis] Forward from Rosa Lichtenstein on Analytic Marxism

2009-08-14 Thread c b
Some might conclude that the relatively hard line adopted in my Essays toward the alien-class origins of DM sits rather awkwardly with the apparently uncritical acceptance of ideas drawn from Wittgenstein's work --, an allegedly bourgeois philosopher and mystic himself. ^ CB: The class of the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Forward from Rosa Lichtenstein on Analytic Marxism

2009-08-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
In response to this: http://www.marxmail.org/msg66028.html It is worth adding that Donald Davidson was a socialist, too, as were Gilbert Ryle and John Austin. Wittgenstein himself declared he was a 'communist at heart', wanted to move to Russia (since he was in agreement with the gains made b