File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0107, message 13


Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 08:25:07 -0700
Subject: Re: AUT: capitalist as risk-taker and supervisor
From: Sharon Vance <canito3-AT-earthlink.net>


This is not purely academic. How do you know when people are resisting? What
constitutes resistance? Is it what they say? What they do? What they say
they do? Is it something we can see?
It seems to me that 'committed revolutionaries' would be as interested in
this issue as 'academics'.
And as to the dichotomy between academics and non-academics, I think this is
also too simple. Personally I find it ironic to be accused of being an
academic given my current job situation and my economic situation and
economic background. I think we need more working class people, more people
from the margins and from the Tenderloin to enter academia and invade it.
Maybe if we did, maybe if we had a lecture hall full of inner city kids
sitting there in the Sorbonne (sp?) while Derrida gave his lectures he
wouldn't be able to get away with the irrelevant playful shit he does!
Sharon

> From: cwright <cwright-AT-21stcentury.net>
> Reply-To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 23:04:17 -0500
> To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> Subject: Re: AUT: capitalist as risk-taker and supervisor
> 
> The problem is that Marx was not a sociologist looking to come up with
> definitions that he could 'apply' to human beings.  Most Marxists have,
> however, taken this sociological approach which ultimately is hostile to
> class struggle, to Marx's project of radical critique, and to the idea that
> no theory could ever grasp or resolve the living contradictions.  Only
> practica-critical activity, revolution, can do that.  If you try to think of
> Marx as a 'useful' way to study people, you will never grasp Marx's kernel,
> the actual revolutionary content of wht Marx was doing.  I am sorry to harp
> on this, but I hate to see anyone waste their time with academicism in
> relation to Marx.
> 
> For the rest, I tend to agree with you and Tahir, but commie00 knows that :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris



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