From: DS <crown-AT-worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Hello Comrades! Fabio Escobar
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 12:58:44 +0000


At 03:14 AM 10/17/96 +0000, you wrote:
>
>I think you are right in your claim that a critique of capitalism does not
>require marxist/communist/et al. conclusions.  Nonetheless, I'm not sure
>your depiction of marxism is fair.  You claim, correctly, perhaps, that
>the philosophy does not contain a complete metaphysical foundation.  Even
>if you are correct, however, this does in no way entail your thesis about
>the "faceless collective."  I think you would, in a proper context, be
>hard-pressed to find support for this position in the writings of either
>Marx, Engels, or any of the turn of the century writers who espoused
>Marxist or neo-Marxist positions.


******* Thanks for at least taking my remarks seriously. Regarding the
writings of Marx and Engels and the faceless collective, I think praxis
amounts to more than paper orthodoxy. What history reveals cannot so easily
be disassociated from the theories which propel the actualities. It is
simply utopian to suggest otherwise and it is man himself who ends up with a
bayonet in his face.


In fact, as Marx would have it, the
>aim of his approach is to reach a point where the individual, and this he
>emphasizes very strongly in the Manuscripts, is considered the important
>measure of society and it is through his personal development that society
>is measured.  Sounds a lot like liberalism's and anarchism's very goals to
>me.  What do you think?


****** I think marxism is the end of man, the human person. Even the post
1968 French Marxists came to realize this to a large degree. The (Hegelian)
Marxist dialectic which allegedly (but nowhere pristinely) incarnates itself
in history is essentially mythic; but a bloody myth indeed. Unbridled
capitalism is the disease, but Marx's "cure" is worse! 

Soccer Tease 

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