Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:33:23 -0600
From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-ilstu.edu>
Subject: Re: BHA: Re: Re: The tall poppy syndrome within CR




jamie morgan wrote:
> 
> Hi Radha,
> 
> Marxism was an attempt to describe reality in order to transform it - it was
> a description of an industrialised society at a particular time and place -
> are you surprised that it did not fit the two thirds world for which it was
> simply not designed, or is this itself a rhetorical device?
> 

I think this is off just a bit. Marxism was first of all the recognition
that until one was _already_ engaged in changing reality one could not
explain it. While the Eleventh Thesis doubtless contains a pragmatic
element (get busy just don't sit there) it is better used, I believe, as
a summary of marxist epistemology.

Spirituality seems to me to be merely spoilt solidarity.

Carrol



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