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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:32:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Paul Zarembka <zarembka-AT-acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Re: marxism-international-digest V1 #406--a correction


Actually, Jerry, the Web page does say the Research in Political Economy
is "founded on understanding society in a manner consistent with classical
Marxism".  The intent has always been to indicate that the BASE of the
R.P.E. is the Marxism as established by Marx and to suggest (without
really saying it directly) that theoretical or practical interpretations
deriving from the Stalin period (Stalinism, if you want to use that word)
are NOT part of the R.P.E. project.

This was a conscious use of a phrase, the phrase "classical Marxism".
Whether it is adequate to the intent I'll let others decide and of course
would be open to suggestions for improvement.

In any case, the above is NOT to say that persons in Stalinized CPs or
elsewhere are excluded.  Personally, I have a great respect for Louis
Althusser and he was in the French CP--albiet critically (particularly
later).  The above also does not exclude analyses which are class based,
but not explicitly Marx.  Both become a judgemental question of where
to draw the line and I'll just have to offer the practice of what you see
in the volumes themselves--there has been no basic change over the past
20 years.

Paul

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On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Gerald Levy wrote:

> Strike Two:
> _Research in Political Economy_ never identified itself as the  home of
> "classical Marxism."



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