Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 09:46:32 -0700 (PDT)
To: bhaskar-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU,
Subject: Re: BHA: new dialectics and CR


At 12:40 PM 8/29/97 -0400, HDespain-AT-aol.com wrote:
>(4) yes, i do believe new dialectics, especially Smith, Murray and Postone to
>have Marx right.  moreover, i am very suspect of critical realists you claim
>Marx himself is a critical realist (passively Bhaskar)....

And:

>The point however, is that like Althusser (beyond his lies), Smith, Murray
>and Postone are expert scholars of Marx, and have perhaps understood Marx
>philosophical commitments and weaknesses better than anyone.  However, it is
>a different story to suggest that Marx himself developed the best method to
>social science currently available.  For this i believe we must rather rely
>on modern philosophy of science.  Now what is quite interesting is the
>similarities between Marx's implicit commitments, explicit comments and
>contemporary philosophy of science.  But we should still be quite careful on
>being too generous toward Marx, this is a tendency of Bhaskar (i think).

Before I get physically ill, please explain.



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