From: "jamie morgan" <jamie-AT-morganj58.fsnet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: BHA: Re: Re: The tall poppy syndrome within CR
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:57:21 -0000


I'm not sure how your coments relate to what I sdaid - which was that Marx's
interest was in capitalism as a mode of production - one that was not to be
found outside Europe and the US at the time - and that many Marxist inspired
movements outside this context have been problematic

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From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox-AT-ilstu.edu>
To: <bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 4:33 PM
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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