From: Michael Hoover <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us> Subject: Re: M-I: G.A. Cohen: "Stagism" cloaked as Marxism Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 7:35:23 18000 Louis P: > In "Karl Marx's Theory of History", Cohen singles out a paragraph from > Marx's Critique of Political Economy that serves a guide to the sort of > Marxism that Cohen endorses: > > "In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations > that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of > production which correspond to a definite stage of their development of <snip> I've always liked what Richard Miller - in his "Analyzing Marx" - had to say about the above passage from the Preface: 'I can think of no other major theorist whose general theory is often reconstructed, in large part, by a close reading of a brief formulation embedded in an autobigraphical sketch in a preface to a book that he gladly allowed to go out of print, as superseded by later writings." (p175) --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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