Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: structuralism

2001-03-24 Thread Patrick Bond
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 07:20:12 -0800 (PST) From: ALI KADRI [EMAIL PROTECTED] Indeed it was harmful because it was ahistorical; it generalised an immediate manifestation of history into a rule of historical development. There is a certain rigidity that belongs more to

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: structuralism

2001-03-24 Thread ann li
"but the main left scholars retreated into either atheoretical social history during the 1980s or policy-wonking consultancies during the 1990s. Most dropped their faddish radical proclivities in due course. 'From the grassroots to the classroots' is how we mock our older ex-neomarxist

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: structuralism

2001-03-23 Thread ALI KADRI
Indeed it was harmfull because it was ahistorical, it generalized an immidiate manifestation of history into rule of historical development. There is a ceratin rigidity that belongs more to physics than to social science. This case pertains more to the Latin American structurlist school than it

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: structuralism

2001-03-23 Thread ALI KADRI
Indeed it was harmful because it was ahistorical; it generalised an immediate manifestation of history into a rule of historical development. There is a certain rigidity that belongs more to physics than to social science. This case pertains more to the Latin American Structurlist School than it