Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 21:43:12 -0400 From: LPA <blissett-AT-unpopular.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: RADICAL NEEDS >I vaguely recallreading some time ago that Agnes Heller's "The Theory of Need >In Marx" >played an important role in Italy's 77 movement although Heller >repudiated the appropriation. > >I read the book several years ago and recently thumbed through my >highlighting and I think there are some interesting ideas in it, but >no having read Lucacs, I think much of it escaped me. > >Does anyone have more information on all this? > >Curtis Price > I recall a division between those who orientated themselves around need and those around desire. Steve wrote: >On the level of *journals* (which I'm told is not the same as the real >world), _Aut Aut_ was one important intellectual forum for this discussion, >as was _Ombre Rosse_ in a more down-to-earth fashion - but I imagine the >notion of the "need for communism" sprang from elsewhere, perhaps in the >proletarian youth circles, or on the margins of Lotta Continua or >autonomia. I just recall the name of one paper "I Volsci" which I understood was part of the desire faction. ttfn Leutha Blissett http://www.unpopular.demon.co.uk http://www.dsnet.it/qwerg/blissett/bliss0.htm http://www.skatta.demon.co.uk http://www.geocities.com/~johngray --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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