Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 12:26:26 -0500 From: bookmarks <106163.77-AT-CompuServe.COM> Subject: M-I: Re: Romanticism and Science in Marx I don't so much disagree as want to clarify. What I said was "analysed in a framework which relates individual actions to the development of the class struggle and the laws of motion of capitalism...", and I think Rob's quotes show just that. Of course superstructural elements take on a life of their own not directly reducible to the economic base. The beauty to me of the 18th Brumaire (and Marx's other historical analyses) is the way they bring alive the dynamic tension between base and superstructure by explaining how the two interact concretely. I don't think we're disagreeing here (though I don't think we need Barry Hindess to explain it). Incidentally, the first of Rob's quotes made me think of the Tory "eurosceptics", and the irony of the fact that the Tory party is currently tearing itself apart over an issue that is practically never argued about in everyday life. I was going to use this to give a concrete illustration of how I see base and superstructure interacting in British politics today, but I've got to do some work. Maybe after the weekend... Charlie Hore, Bookmarks Bookshop --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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