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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:13:18 +0000
Subject: did marx bother to think? 
From: "Michael Pennamacoor" <pennamacoor-AT-enterprise.net>


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astonishingly someone wrote:

> I do wish that people would refrain from attempting to analyse the world 
>of political and social reality from a philosophical slant, which is more 
>at home pondering the various activities of ghostie-woasties, and spirits 
>and childish imaginings such as the predicational dodge 'Dasein.' 

Is that what Marx did? refrained from analysing the political and social world philosophically? Have we not read The Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts? or The German Ideology? Oh yeah, Marx's philosophy did amount to an indictment of 'philosophy' but which (historically situated) philosophy? Any and All? Would he not grant that he must have been granting this indictment precisely within a particular stage in the conflict between the productive forces and the relations of production at that time? Namely: the (Young and Old) Hegelians, Feuerbach, British Empiricists, etc? Was not his inverting and moving away from and superceding such philosophical positions, itself produced in an exemplary philosophical movement? Were not his prolific pronouncements on philosophy and ideology, etc, themselves uttered entirely within the ethos of an ongoing philosophical discourse (and one that developed throughout his struggles with others)? Finally, where are the pondering[(s) of] the var!
ious activities of ghostie-woasties, and spirits and childish imaginings in Marx's texts exactly?

Marx is a philosopher and he would certainly agree that only such a being as a philosopher could challenge the ideological apparatuses of idealistic and falsely-materialistic philosophies that abounded during his stay upon this one world. It is hard for me to imagne that anyone could possibly fail to read the utterly philosophical in Marx's struggles with the ruling philosophies of his time. Bah!

michaelP

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did marx bother to think? astonishingly someone wrote:

> I do wish that people would refrain from attempting to analyse the world
>of political and social reality from a philosophical slant, which is more
>at home pondering the various activities of ghostie-woasties, and spirits
>and childish imaginings such as the predicational dodge 'Dasein.'

Is that what Marx did? refrained from analysing the political and social world philosophically? Have we not read The Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts? or The German Ideology? Oh yeah, Marx's philosophy did amount to an indictment of 'philosophy' but which (historically situated) philosophy? Any and All? Would he not grant that he must have been granting this indictment precisely within a particular stage in the conflict between the productive forces and the relations of production at that time? Namely: the (Young and Old) Hegelians, Feuerbach, British Empiricists, etc? Was not his inverting and moving away from and superceding such philosophical positions, itself produced in an exemplary philosophical movement? Were not his prolific pronouncements on philosophy and ideology, etc, themselves uttered entirely within the ethos of an ongoing philosophical discourse (and one that developed throughout his struggles with others)? Finally, where are the pondering[(s) of] the various activities of ghostie-woasties, and spirits and childish imaginings in Marx's texts exactly?

Marx is a philosopher and he would certainly agree that only such a being as a philosopher could challenge the ideological apparatuses of idealistic and falsely-materialistic philosophies that abounded during his stay upon this one world. It is hard for me to imagne that anyone could possibly fail to read the utterly philosophical in Marx's struggles with the ruling philosophies of his time. Bah!

michaelP
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