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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
  


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